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Tributes to Cilla Black, 'Liverpool's Cinderella', pour inhttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-tributes-liverpool-cinderella-pour-in
<p>Friends, colleagues and politicians express sorrow at death at 72 of showbusiness star who became queen of Saturday night TV</p><p>Tributes have been paid to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilla_Black">Cilla Black</a>, who moved from singing star in the vanguard of the 1960s Merseyside pop revolution to queen of Saturday night television and then subject of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/sep/16/cilla-glue-tv-review-cilla-black-biopic">much-praised TV biopic</a> last year.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-life-in-pictures">Cilla Black – a life in pictures</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-tributes-liverpool-cinderella-pour-in">Continue reading...</a>Cilla BlackTelevisionCultureTelevision & radioMediaSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:56:30 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-tributes-liverpool-cinderella-pour-inPhotograph: Jane Mingay/AFP/Getty ImagesCilla Black was ‘the most remarkable woman, a true legend’, said Sheridan Smith.James Meikle2015-08-02T14:56:30ZFlight MH370: Malaysia appeals for help to widen searchhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/flight-mh370-debris-found-reunion-missing-plane
<p>Malaysian authorities appeal for help to find further wreckage after debris discovered last week confirmed as part of Boeing 777 </p><p></p><p>Malyasian authorities have appealed to territories near R&eacute;union, where debris believed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was found, to assist in the search for more pieces of wreckage.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/flight-mh370-debris-found-reunion-missing-plane">Continue reading...</a>Malaysia Airlines flight MH370RéunionWorld newsMalaysiaFranceAsia PacificEuropeSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:49:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/flight-mh370-debris-found-reunion-missing-planePhotograph: Julien DelaruePolice on the island of Réunion, where debris believed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 was found.Photograph: Julien DelaruePolice on the island of Réunion, where debris believed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 was found.Julien Delarue in Réunion and Haroon Siddique2015-08-02T14:49:37ZCorbyn to unveil 'Vision 2020' to end austerity with public investment planhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/corbyn-vision-2020-end-austerity-public-investment-plan
<p>Frontrunner in Labour leadership contest will flesh out his policy plans this week as Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson line up together to warn of Corbyn victory</p><p>Jeremy Corbyn will brush aside warnings that he risks a return to the divisions of the 1980s when he outlines plans to end “the years of political and economic austerity” to help create a high-skilled workforce in Britain.</p><p>As Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson found rare common ground over the weekend to warn of the dangers posed by a Corbyn victory, the leftwinger made it clear that he would focus on the future as he pledged a return to the “sound economics of public investment”.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/corbyn-vision-2020-end-austerity-public-investment-plan">Continue reading...</a>Labour party leadershipJeremy CorbynLabourNeil KinnockPeter MandelsonLiz KendallAndy BurnhamPoliticsUK newsLegal aidUK criminal justiceLawYvette CooperSun, 02 Aug 2015 19:26:34 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/corbyn-vision-2020-end-austerity-public-investment-planPhotograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/GettyJeremy Corbyn at a Labour leadership hustings event in Warrington. He is pledging a return to the ‘sound economics of public investment’ to end what he has called ‘variations of austerity’ from the main parties.Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent2015-08-02T19:26:34ZLord Coe expects 'robust response' from IAAF to claims of mass dopinghttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/lord-coe-response-iaaf-mass-doping-claims-blood-counts-olympic-athletics
<p>Former Olympic gold medallist pledges world athletics governing body will treat seriously allegations over ‘dubious’ blood counts in elite athletes</p><p>Lord Coe said he expects “a robust response” from the world athletics governing body to claims of mass doping, following the leak of thousands of elite athletes’ blood test results by a whistleblower.</p><p>The former Olympic gold medallist pledged the IAAF would treat “extremely seriously” allegations including that a third of all medals – including 55 golds - won in endurance events at recent Olympics and world championships went to competitors who had recorded a “dubious” blood count result during their career. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/lord-coe-response-iaaf-mass-doping-claims-blood-counts-olympic-athletics">Continue reading...</a>Drugs in sportAthleticsLord CoeSportUK newsWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:36:25 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/lord-coe-response-iaaf-mass-doping-claims-blood-counts-olympic-athleticsPhotograph: Joe Toth/BPI/Rex ShutterstockLord Coe: ‘“I know that the IAAF takes these allegations extremely seriously and it will issue a robust and detailed response to them and continue to work closely, as it has always done, with WADA.’Robert Booth2015-08-02T17:36:25ZConcerns raised over plan to strip failed asylum seeker families of benefitshttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/concerns-raised-plan-strip-failed-asylum-seeker-families-benefits
<p>Home Office accused of ‘morally reprehensible’ action over plan to remove automatic right to benefits from families who do not win asylum</p><p>The government has been accused of acting in a “morally reprehensible” way after the Home Office confirmed it was planning to strip families of the automatic right to benefits if their asylum applications were rejected.</p><p>The Refugee Council expressed “grave concerns” as the Home Office minister James Brokenshire defended plans to remove automatic benefits from families who do not win asylum as a way of signalling that the UK is not “a land of milk and honey”.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/concerns-raised-plan-strip-failed-asylum-seeker-families-benefits">Continue reading...</a>Immigration and asylumBenefitsWelfareUK newsPoliticsRefugeesWorld newsSocietySun, 02 Aug 2015 13:32:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/concerns-raised-plan-strip-failed-asylum-seeker-families-benefitsPhotograph: Rui Vieira/PAJames Brokenshire, Home Office minister, said it was right to remove an automatic right to benefits from people who are in UK on an illegal basis.Nicholas Watt and Mark Townsend2015-08-02T13:32:05ZBronwyn Bishop resigns as Speaker, Tony Abbott announceshttp://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/02/brownyn-bishop-resigns-as-speaker-tony-abbott-announces
<p>Prime minister says scandal-hit Speaker called him to say she was quitting and that there would be a review of parliamentary expenses </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/02/bronwyn-bishop-formidable-political-warrior-has-walked-a-rocky-road">Bronwyn Bishop: formidable political warrior who walked a rocky road</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/02/bronwyn-bishop-had-to-be-forced-out-but-some-good-may-come-of-the-scandal">Lenore Taylor: Bronwyn Bishop had to be forced out </a></li></ul><p>Bronwyn Bishop tendered her resignation as Speaker of the House to governor general Peter Cosgrove, following weeks of expenses scandals that had threatened to derail the government.</p><p>The prime minister, Tony Abbott, made the announcement on Sunday afternoon.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/02/brownyn-bishop-resigns-as-speaker-tony-abbott-announces">Continue reading...</a>Bronwyn BishopAustralian politicsAustralia newsCoalitionAustralian politicians' expensesLiberal partyTony AbbottSun, 02 Aug 2015 07:24:13 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/02/brownyn-bishop-resigns-as-speaker-tony-abbott-announcesPhotograph: Lukas Coch/AAPThe Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, has quit.Shalailah Medhora2015-08-02T07:24:13ZIsrael to detain Jewish terror suspects without trialhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/israel-to-detain-west-bank-arson-attackers-without-trial
<p>Decision comes as thousands of Israelis protest against radicalised fringe after deaths of Palestinian toddler and Israeli teenager<br></p><p>Israel has announced it intends to detain Jewish terror suspects without trial as the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, came under pressure to respond to the deaths in separate attacks of a Palestinian toddler and Israeli teenager. </p><p>Thousands of Israeli people took to the streets over the weekend to warn against a radicalised and violent fringe growing within the country, following the arson attack on a Palestinian family home in the West Bank by extremists and the stabbing of six people at a Jerusalem Gay Pride march <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/30/up-to-six-stabbed-at-gay-pride-march-in-jerusalem">by a suspect identified as an ultra-Orthodox Jew</a>.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/israel-to-detain-west-bank-arson-attackers-without-trial">Continue reading...</a>IsraelMiddle East and North AfricaWorld newsPalestinian territoriesBinyamin NetanyahuJudaismSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:29:34 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/israel-to-detain-west-bank-arson-attackers-without-trialPhotograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty ImagesIsraelis hold placards during a demonstration in Tel Aviv against the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh, the toddler who was burned to death by suspected Jewish extremists.Mairav Zonszein in Tel Aviv2015-08-02T15:29:34ZLondon's richest borough to move those in temporary housing to cheaper areashttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/london-social-housing-kensington-chelsea-rising-prices
<p>Kensington and Chelsea says it is looking for 39 homes outside borough because it cannot afford properties in area where average price is £1.4m</p><p>The UK’s most expensive borough to live in, the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea, plans to send some of its most vulnerable residents to live outside London because the soaring property market means it can no longer afford to house them.</p><p>The Conservative authority, where the average home costs &pound;1.4m, will <a href="https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/committees/Document.ashx?czJKcaeAi5tUFL1DTL2UE4zNRBcoShgo=FhkD%2fw7cT6LFSZSiHnyWlwhPqT2yhfUSabN9jcHJ%2bB1F763oijbHoQ%3d%3d&amp;rUzwRPf%2bZ3zd4E7Ikn8Lyw%3d%3d=pwRE6AGJFLDNlh225F5QMaQWCtPHwdhUfCZ%2fLUQzgA2uL5jNRG4jdQ%3d%3d&amp;mCTIbCubSFfXsDGW9IXnlg%3d%3d=hFflUdN3100%3d&amp;kCx1AnS9%2fpWZQ40DXFvdEw%3d%3d=hFflUdN3100%3d&amp;uJovDxwdjMPoYv%2bAJvYtyA%3d%3d=ctNJFf55vVA%3d&amp;FgPlIEJYlotS%2bYGoBi5olA%3d%3d=NHdURQburHA%3d&amp;d9Qjj0ag1Pd993jsyOJqFvmyB7X0CSQK=ctNJFf55vVA%3d&amp;WGewmoAfeNR9xqBux0r1Q8Za60lavYmz=ctNJFf55vVA%3d&amp;WGewmoAfeNQ16B2MHuCpMRKZMwaG1PaO=ctNJFf55vVA%3d">spend &pound;10m </a>buying properties outside the borough for people who have been made homeless. It is searching for 39 homes in outer London, the M25 corridor and the home counties suitable for temporary accommodation, used by people who often suffer physical or mental health problems and are left without a roof over their heads.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/london-social-housing-kensington-chelsea-rising-prices">Continue reading...</a>LondonHousingUK newsCommunitiesSocietySun, 02 Aug 2015 15:00:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/london-social-housing-kensington-chelsea-rising-pricesPhotograph: Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA Ferrari parked on a street in Kensington, where the cost of a home is higher than anywhere else in the UK.Robert Booth2015-08-02T15:00:07ZMan arrested on Isle of Wight after woman's body foundhttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/man-arrested-isle-wight-womans-body-found
<p>Hampshire police say a 53-year-old man is helping them with their inquiries after they were called to a flat in Newport, where they found a body<br></p><p>A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a woman’s body was found at a flat on the Isle of Wight.</p><p>Police were called at 12.40pm on Sunday to a property in Barton Road, Newport, where they found a body.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/man-arrested-isle-wight-womans-body-found">Continue reading...</a>UK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 21:28:41 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/man-arrested-isle-wight-womans-body-foundPhotograph: Stephen Barnes/Demotix/CorbisThe flat in Barton Road has been cordoned off so that specialist forensic officers can examine the property.Photograph: Stephen Barnes/Demotix/CorbisThe flat in Barton Road has been cordoned off so that specialist forensic officers can examine the property.Press Association2015-08-02T21:28:41ZBritain not sunny enough for healthy vitamin D levels, say expertshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/britain-not-sunny-enough-healthy-vitamin-d-levels-supplements
<p>Intake should be boosted with supplements, say official health advisors in draft recommendations that could lead to new guidance</p><p>People in Britain should boost their vitamin D intake with supplements because of a lack of bright sunshine to provide it naturally, government health advisers have suggested. The British weather prevents much of the population from receiving <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/12/vitamin-d-deficiency-sunshine-oily-fish-supplements">healthy amounts of the essential vitamin</a> from sunlight, and natural food sources alone are not enough to boost levels, according to the scientific advisory committee on nutrition (SACN).</p><p>The SACN, an independent advisory body to the government, made the recommendation after studying the links between vitamin D levels and a range of health problems, including musculoskeletal health, heart disease, type 1 diabetes, cancer and multiple sclerosis.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/britain-not-sunny-enough-healthy-vitamin-d-levels-supplements">Continue reading...</a>NutritionThe sunHealthSocietyNutritionHealth & wellbeingLife and styleScienceDiabetesWeatherSkincareUK chartsSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:47:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/britain-not-sunny-enough-healthy-vitamin-d-levels-supplementsPhotograph: AlamyA walker in the Peak District. Public Health England says more than one in five people have low levels of vitamin D, which is essential for healthy teeth and bones.Photograph: AlamyA walker in the Peak District. Public Health England says more than one in five people have low levels of vitamin D, which is essential for healthy teeth and bones.Press Association2015-08-02T17:47:06ZDerek and Clive are back – are they too much for the 21st century?http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/02/derek-and-clive-rerelease
<p>Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s relentlessly filthy 70s albums anticipated punk, and influenced both alternative comedy and a generation of smutty teenagers. But is this re-release just too offensive for modern ears?<br></p><p>What’s the worst job you ever had? Ask the right (wrong) person and their eyes will light up with mischief and horrible recognition. They have found a kindred spirit. “I had the terrible job,” they will tell you, suddenly slipping into one of those whining, droning, ultra-boring, ultra-cockney accents that you no longer hear in real life, “of retrieving lobsters from up Jayne Mansfield’s arsehole.”</p><p>They may go on to inform you of Lady Vera, who can tell your future from your farts, or their schooldays when Sir would get “jolly batey” with them, or the time they earned a crust collecting Winston Churchill’s bogeys, one of which was so huge it stood in for the Titanic (“There was no such THING as the Ti-fucking-tanic!”). They’ll probably be in their 40s and they won’t be able to control themselves laughing. These are the men – and yes, it’s usually men – who were exposed to the comedy albums of Derek and Clive at an impressionable age. And they’re about to go overboard again, for all of this unfathomably filthy material by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore is re-released this week in a&nbsp;box set, A Right Pair of C****: The Complete F****** Derek and Clive.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/02/derek-and-clive-rerelease">Continue reading...</a>ComedyComedyCulturePeter CookDudley MooreStageSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/02/derek-and-clive-rereleasePhotograph: Estate of Keith Morris/RedfernsDudley Moore, left, and Peter Cook promote the first Derek and Clive album in 1976.Photograph: Estate of Keith Morris/RedfernsDudley Moore, left, and Peter Cook promote the first Derek and Clive album in 1976.Andrew Harrison2015-08-02T16:00:00ZHow to spot whodunnit: academics find secret clues in Agatha Christie mysterieshttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/academics-unlock-formula-agatha-christies-mysteries
<p>To mark 125 years since the Queen of Crime’s birth, experts unravelled methods, motives and locations in her detective stories to find out how to deduce the killer</p><p><br />For almost 100 years, Agatha Christie has beguiled readers with her much-loved mysteries.</p><p>But now a panel of experts claims to have worked out how to answer the perennial question: whodunnit?</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/academics-unlock-formula-agatha-christies-mysteries">Continue reading...</a>Agatha ChristieBooksCultureTelevisionTelevision & radioThrillersFictionSun, 02 Aug 2015 23:01:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/academics-unlock-formula-agatha-christies-mysteriesPhotograph: Carnival Films/ITVA scene from Lord Edgware Dies, starring, from left, David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Hugh Fraser and Philip Jackson. If the setting is a country house, there is a 75% chance that the killer is female, the study found.Haroon Siddique2015-08-02T23:01:10ZWith miscarriage, there are many routes to shame | Zoe Williamshttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/social-media-miscarriage-mark-zuckerberg-pregnancy
Mark Zuckerberg is right to challenge the taboos surrounding pregnancy. But the pressure on women remains intense<p>‘<a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102276576050141" title="">Most people don’t discuss miscarriages because you </a>worry your problems will distance you or reflect upon you – as if you’re defective or did something to cause this,” <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/31/mark-zuckerberg-wife-expecting-baby-girl" title="">wrote Mark Zuckerberg, announcing his wife’s pregnancy</a>, after three miscarriages. In the open letter, he continued: “In today’s open and connected world, discussing these issues doesn’t distance us; it brings us together. It creates understanding and tolerance, and it gives us hope.” It is not strange at all that the inventor of Facebook would think social media had a new answer to a problem as old as humankind. What would be strange is if he were right: what if that’s true? What if this taboo were to be overturned by the internet? What would the implications of that be, for all other taboos, for all other hopes?</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/31/mark-zuckerberg-wife-expecting-baby-girl">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife expecting a baby girl</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/social-media-miscarriage-mark-zuckerberg-pregnancy">Continue reading...</a>PregnancyHealth & wellbeingFamilyParents and parentingLife and styleMark ZuckerbergFacebookMediaSocial networkingTechnologyWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:18:28 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/social-media-miscarriage-mark-zuckerberg-pregnancyPhotograph: /GuardianIllustration by Jasper RietmanPhotograph: /GuardianIllustration by Jasper RietmanZoe Williams2015-08-02T17:18:28ZIain Green on the athletics doping allegations – cartoonhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/aug/02/iain-green-on-athletics-doping-revelation-cartoon
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/aug/02/iain-green-on-athletics-doping-revelation-cartoon">Continue reading...</a>Drugs in sportSportWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 22:46:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/aug/02/iain-green-on-athletics-doping-revelation-cartoonPhotograph: Iain GreenIain Green2015-08-02T22:46:02ZTrue Blood to Tarzan: how Alexander Skarsgård swung into Hollywoodhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/02/alexander-skarsgard-interview-diary-of-a-teenage-girl
<p>He’s been a vampire bar-owner. Soon he’ll be Lord of the Jungle. But the Swedish actor is about to star in the sexually explicit Diary of a Teenage Girl – as a man who beds his girlfriend’s daughter</p><p>“I’m tall in Sweden,” says Alexander Skarsg&aring;rd, lounging across a conveniently oversized sofa. “But I’m huge in Hollywood.” He’s not kidding: at 6ft 4in, he’s even taller in the flesh than he appears on screen. This must make film parties particularly awkward for people who find themselves pitching projects – or even just chatting – to his navel.</p><p>His height, in an industry full of titches, and his unmistakably Swedish looks, have helped Skarsg&aring;rd stand out from the pack. He was perfect for <a draggable="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMTbkfgT_jc">a small turn in Zoolander</a> as one of Ben Stiller’s buddies, and his imposing presence led to a breakout role in the vampire TV show True Blood. It also makes his turn in new movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl, in which his character has an affair with his girlfriend’s 17-&shy;year-&shy;old daughter (5ft 2in), even more shocking. The coming&shy;-of-age drama, which also stars Kristen Wiig and British newcomer <a draggable="true" href="http://www.teenvogue.com/story/bel-powley-interview-the-diary-of-a-teenage-girl">Bel Powley</a>, recently gained an 18 certificate in the UK for its explicit sex scenes, a decision its director has denounced.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/02/alexander-skarsgard-interview-diary-of-a-teenage-girl">Continue reading...</a>FilmThe Diary of a Teenage GirlAlexander SkarsgårdTelevisionYoung peopleCultureSocietyTelevision & radioRomanceDramaSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/02/alexander-skarsgard-interview-diary-of-a-teenage-girlPhotograph: Rex ShutterstockAlexander Skarsgård in Edinburgh for the UK premerie of The Diary of a Teenage Girl.Photograph: Rex ShutterstockAlexander Skarsgård in Edinburgh for the UK premerie of The Diary of a Teenage Girl.Benjamin Lee2015-08-02T17:00:01ZVoice over: why Tesco’s female tills have checked out for the final timehttp://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2015/aug/02/voice-over-why-tescos-female-tills-have-checked-out-for-last-time
<p>Britain’s biggest supermarket has had it up to here with unexpected items, and former EastEnders actor Helena Breck has paid the price: her self-service voiceovers have been replaced by those of a cheery, posh gent</p><p><strong>Name:</strong> Helena Breck.</p><p><strong>Occupation:</strong> Actor.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2015/aug/02/voice-over-why-tescos-female-tills-have-checked-out-for-last-time">Continue reading...</a>TescoSupermarketsTechnologyRetail industrySun, 02 Aug 2015 17:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2015/aug/02/voice-over-why-tescos-female-tills-have-checked-out-for-last-timePhotograph: AlamyPhotograph: AlamyGuardian Staff2015-08-02T17:00:01ZCreative young Brits are quitting London for affordable Berlinhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/creative-young-brits-quit-london-affordable-berlin
More and more burnt-out Londoners are embracing the laid-back cool – and much lower cost of living – of the German capital<p>The building that houses Agora, tucked away in a small side-street in residential Neuk&ouml;lln, in an old lock-making factory, is easy to ignore.</p><p>Outside a handful of people in their late twenties and early thirties are milling about, smoking, working on their MacBook Airs, chatting. On the short walk from the front gate to the front door snippets of three different conversations in English can be heard. Inside is a sea of laptops on desks, with workers fuelled by cortados, flat whites and a daily changing menu, written in English; a woman with a strong German accent orders a coffee in English, because the woman behind the counter doesn’t speak German.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/creative-young-brits-quit-london-affordable-berlin">Continue reading...</a>GermanyBerlinEuropeLondonWorld newsExpat financeMoneyUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 22:30:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/creative-young-brits-quit-london-affordable-berlinPhotograph: AlamyThousands of Brits have moved to Berlin, which is popular with 'young, creative' people. Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: AlamyThousands of Brits have moved to Berlin, which is popular with 'young, creative' people. Photograph: AlamyJohanna Kamradt2015-08-01T22:30:04ZSix things hipsters have ruinedhttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/02/six-things-hipsters-have-ruined
<p>With the news that another hipster has found his way into this year’s Bake Off line-up, here are some other things that Shoreditch’s true believers have sucked the fun out of</p><p><em>The Great British Bake Off </em>is back this week and among a new batch of soggy-bottomed hopefuls is 35-year-old Stu Henshall from Surrey, who’s been dubbed the “most hipster <em>Bake Off</em> contestant ever”. He has tats, wears hats, brews his own beer and is in a dubstep band. Is nowhere safe from the hipster epidemic? Frankly, no. Here’s six more things they’ve infected…</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jul/28/great-british-bake-off-contestants-series-six">Great British Bake Off: new contestants poised to serve up sixth series</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/02/six-things-hipsters-have-ruined">Continue reading...</a>CultureFashionFestivalsLife and styleThe Great British Bake OffTelevisionFood TVJames BondThrillerFilmRunningSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:00:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/02/six-things-hipsters-have-ruinedPhotograph: Mark Bourdillon/PAStu the hipster, one of this year’s Bake Off hopefuls. Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/PAPhotograph: Mark Bourdillon/PAStu the hipster, one of this year’s Bake Off hopefuls. Photograph: Mark Bourdillon/PAMichael Hogan2015-08-02T09:00:11ZWhy I waited until I was 24 to buy my first bikini | Sarah Galohttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/i-waited-until-24-to-buy-first-bikini
<p> It’s not easy to shed the religious teachings one grew up with, but I’ve begun to let go of the harmful teachings about my body and the value of “purity” </p><p>Bikinis are for honeymoons. Or so I was told as a child when I asked my mom why I couldn’t get a two-piece bathing suit like everyone else. “Only your husband should see your body like that. That’s the way God made it,” my mom told, continuing to fold the laundry. </p><p>The assumption is absurd now, but then, at four or five, I shrugged and went back to wearing my Lion King one-piece without complaint. If God made my body - my abdomen, mind you in this scenario - for only my husband to see, who I was to argue?</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/i-waited-until-24-to-buy-first-bikini">Continue reading...</a>Life and styleWomenChristianityReligionFashionSummerSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:15:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/i-waited-until-24-to-buy-first-bikiniPhotograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNo more tankinis or one-piece suits this summer.Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNo more tankinis or one-piece suits this summer.Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPhotograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSarah Galo2015-08-02T12:15:03ZHumans recap: season one, episode eight – the big finalehttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/aug/02/humans-recap-season-one-episode-eight-the-big-finale
<p>It would be an understatement to say that Humans doesn’t end neatly. There are more questions than answers as the super-synths make their bid for freedom</p><p><em>Spoiler alert: this recap covers the eighth episode of </em><a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/humans"><em>Humans showing on Channel 4</em></a><em>. For episode seven, click </em><em><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/jul/26/humans-recap-season-one-episode-seven-outstanding-and-unnerving">here</a></em></p><p>If you’ve grown to love the conscious synths over the past few episodes, look away now. Hobb has all five of them strapped to beds and he’s removing their ability to self-replicate, along with their dignity.<br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/aug/02/humans-recap-season-one-episode-eight-the-big-finale">Continue reading...</a>HumansTelevisionTelevision & radioCultureDramaSun, 02 Aug 2015 21:00:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/aug/02/humans-recap-season-one-episode-eight-the-big-finalePhotograph: Gary Moyes/KudosMattie and Toby, who now have Pete on their side.Photograph: Gary Moyes/KudosMattie and Toby, who now have Pete on their side.Hannah Verdier2015-08-02T21:00:06ZBritain at the Bookies: a rose-tinted view of the nation’s gambling habithttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/gambling-britain-at-the-bookies
<p>A BBC series showcasing Britain’s relationship with gambling does not present bookmakers as ruthless shysters obsessed with parting impressionable fools from their money. If anything it ventures too far the other way</p><p>“Stuart is on his daily trip around the betting shops of Huddersfield.” While viewers will almost certainly hear more depressing lines uttered in the voiceovers of future documentaries, that particular zinger will take some beating. Stuart is unemployed, hopelessly addicted to the electronic gaming machines which have become a staple of British high street bookies and operates a strict strategy when playing them. “I’ve got a limit of how much I want to take it to,” he tells the crew shadowing him for Britain At The Bookies. “How much you’re prepared to lose?” asks a voice from behind the camera. “No,” he replies. “How much I want to win.” Oh, Stuart.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/aug/02/betting-horses-gambling-bookmakers-accounts-closed">All bets are off: why bookmakers aren’t playing fair</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/gambling-britain-at-the-bookies">Continue reading...</a>Sport bettingGamblingSportBBCSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:59:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/gambling-britain-at-the-bookiesPhotograph: Paul Thurlby/the guardianIllustration by Paul ThurlbyBarry Glendenning2015-08-02T17:59:02ZAncient Egyptian underwater treasures to be exhibited for the first timehttp://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/02/ancient-egyptian-artefacts-thonis-heracleion-canopus-paris
<p>Artefacts discovered amid submerged ruins of cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus to be unveiled in major Paris exhibition</p><p>Spectacular ancient Egyptian treasures are to be exhibited for the first time having been discovered underwater in the submerged ruins of the near-legendary cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus.</p><p>A finely sculpted statuette of a pharaoh and a golden-eyed depiction of god Osiris are among antiquities to be unveiled in a <a href="http://www.imarabe.org/exposition/osiris-mysteres-engloutis-d-egypte">major exhibition</a> in Paris from next month.<br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/02/ancient-egyptian-artefacts-thonis-heracleion-canopus-paris">Continue reading...</a>EgyptologyArchaeologyEgyptAfricaMiddle East and North AfricaWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:30:52 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/02/ancient-egyptian-artefacts-thonis-heracleion-canopus-parisPhotograph: Christoph GerigkOil lamp found amid submerged ruins of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus. The ancient cities sank beneath the waves in the eighth century AD following natural disasters.Dalya Alberge2015-08-02T15:30:52ZA few words with the web's con artistshttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/02/a-few-words-with-the-webs-con-artists
<p>What’s it like to turn the tables on email scammers? Comedian James Veitch did just that after one of them posed as a friend of his … with hilarious results</p><ul><li><a href="http://gu.com/p/4b4f7">James Veitch interview: ‘The only way to fight email scammers is to waste their time. It’s a lot of fun’</a><br></li></ul> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/02/a-few-words-with-the-webs-con-artists">Continue reading...</a>ComedyBooksEmailInternetTechnologyScamsComputingMoneyCultureSun, 02 Aug 2015 07:15:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/02/a-few-words-with-the-webs-con-artistsPhotograph: Illustration by Jiro Bevis.Photograph: Illustration by Jiro Bevis.James Veitch2015-08-02T07:15:07ZThe Sonar System: a children’s book about sound systems, Tesfarians and the power of musichttp://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/aug/02/sonar-system-childrens-book-sound-systems-black-experience
<p>You’re more likely to encounter a Gruffalo than a BME person in literature aimed at kids, but Ras Mykha’s new book places black characters front and centre</p><p>In <a href="http://www.onelovebooks.com/The-Sonar-System#.VbtOxCpVhBc" title="">The Sonar System</a>, a new children’s picture book by singer and MC <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ras-mykha" title="">Ras Mykha</a>, the planets orbit a gigantic, pulsating speaker instead of a sun. The story is simple, familiar and classic: the conflict between two peoples (the Tesfarians and the Malake) who once lived in peace, with an overarching message of acceptance. What makes this book noteworthy is that it’s written by a black person, features black characters and focuses on black experience.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/aug/02/sonar-system-childrens-book-sound-systems-black-experience">Continue reading...</a>Children and teenagersBooksRace in educationRace issuesSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:00:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/aug/02/sonar-system-childrens-book-sound-systems-black-experiencePhotograph: HandoutThe Sonar System is a rare thing indeed: a children’s book featuring black characters.Photograph: HandoutThe Sonar System is a rare thing indeed: a children’s book featuring black characters.Chitra Ramaswamy2015-08-02T15:00:07ZAll bets are off: why bookmakers aren’t playing fairhttp://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/aug/02/betting-horses-gambling-bookmakers-accounts-closed
<p>Win too much at the races and you could find your bookmaker closing your account. An anonymous punter reveals why the odds are now firmly in favour of the big online firms</p><p>As <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/sep/06/g-force-betfred-sprint-cup-sole-power-richard-hughes">G Force</a> burst through to win the prestigious Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock, I began celebrating my biggest priced winner of the flat season, having backed him at odds of 25-1. But my joy at such a profitable day’s gambling was soon tempered by the realisation that yet another account with a bookmaker was effectively being shut down. After nearly four decades as a punter my betting is heavily curtailed. Not out of choice, but because I have had the audacity to win several thousand pounds.</p><p>Most of my internet betting accounts have either been closed by my bookmakers or so “restricted” that they might just as well be shut down. Time and again my attempts to place bets of &pound;50 or less are greeted with responses such as “Alert – your bet has not been placed.” Instead, I am offered wagers of just &pound;2 or similar amounts: bookmakers’ less than subtle code for “Get lost: we don’t want your custom.” </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/aug/02/betting-horses-gambling-bookmakers-accounts-closed">Continue reading...</a>GamblingSocietyHorse racingSportGreyhound racingSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:00:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/aug/02/betting-horses-gambling-bookmakers-accounts-closedPhotograph: Tom JenkinsUnder starter’s orders: yet again the horses break through the tape for a false start in the Grand National steeplechase. Photograph: Tom JenkinsPhotograph: Tom JenkinsUnder starter’s orders: yet again the horses break through the tape for a false start in the Grand National steeplechase. Photograph: Tom JenkinsAnonymous2015-08-02T09:00:09ZNothing prepares you for being the daughter of ageing parentshttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/nothing-prepares-you-daughter-ageing-parents-jackie-kay
<p>There are classes for the mothers of babies, but there’s no helping with your mum and dad growing old</p><p>Old people’s wards are hell for old people. Geriatric wards are bedlam, bonkers, bananas. A toothless woman screaming when left alone, a cry that reaches the high hospital ceiling. A woman effing and blinding – the polite curtain will not protect her from the indignity of a nappy change. A woman who lives the same moment in repeat, dressed up for going home in a bright red anorak, over the dressing gown, asking for the key to her house, saying over and over: “Am I going home today?” Or a woman who shouts at the nurses: “Stop treating me like a plate of mince.”</p><p>Earlier this year, my parents both ended up in hospital at around the same time and the cause was the same thing. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/antibiotics" title="">Antibiotics</a>. Or rather, dehydration caused by antibiotics. My mum was first; she was so dehydrated she was having visions. Antibiotics revolutionised the treatment of bacterial infections in the 20th century – but for old people they can dry the kidneys, give them fever, nausea, nerve damage and affect their&nbsp;balance.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/nothing-prepares-you-daughter-ageing-parents-jackie-kay">Continue reading...</a>HealthSocietySun, 02 Aug 2015 06:00:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/nothing-prepares-you-daughter-ageing-parents-jackie-kayPhotograph: Barry Diomede/AlamyAn elderly patient awaits treatment. ‘Nothing prepares you for being the daughter of ageing parents.’ Photograph: Barry Diomede/AlamyPhotograph: Barry Diomede/AlamyAn elderly patient awaits treatment. ‘Nothing prepares you for being the daughter of ageing parents.’ Photograph: Barry Diomede/AlamyJackie Kay2015-08-02T06:00:07ZHow can I stop someone snoring?http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/how-can-i-stop-someone-snoring
Snoring can ruin both your relationship and your health. But little is known about how to stop it. Does one team of scientists finally have an effective cure?<p>I’ve been told I snore. Apparently it’s a quiet, nasal, snuffly sound, although I’m in denial, because I’ve never heard it. But those long-suffering partners who have to endure the snorers are the tortured witnesses who testify against us. We may wake fresh and revived after a full night in dreamland but, on their side of the bed, they simmer in sleep-deprived rage at another interrupted night.</p><p>No one knows quite how many of us snore – but it’s certainly a big problem (estimates range from 30-50%) and a growing one. For partners of snorers (often wives, since twice as many men as women appear to be afflicted) it can lead to misery and even marital rifts. For serious snorers, it can put strain on their own bodies.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/how-can-i-stop-someone-snoring">Continue reading...</a>SleepHealth & wellbeingLife and styleSun, 02 Aug 2015 06:00:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/how-can-i-stop-someone-snoringPhotograph: AlamySnoring … Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: AlamySnoring … Photograph: AlamySaleyha Ahsan2015-08-02T06:00:07ZCecil the lion’s 'brother' Jericho alive and well despite rumors, say researchershttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/01/jericho-not-dead-cecil-the-lion-zimbabwe
<ul><li>Zimbabwe National Parks authority confirms lion is alive</li><li>Researcher tells Guardian Jericho seen ‘probably mating’</li></ul><p>Despite reports that Cecil the lion’s “brother” Jericho had been shot dead by a poacher, a field researcher at <a href="http://www.satibtrust.com/en/projects/hwange-lion-research/">Hwange Lion Research</a> said on Saturday: “He looks alive and well.” Another conservation worker said the lion had been seen with a female earlier in the day, “probably mating”.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/01/neighbors-cecil-the-lion-hunter-walter-palmer-mixed-views">Neighbors of man who killed Cecil the lion give mixed views on Walter Palmer</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/01/jericho-not-dead-cecil-the-lion-zimbabwe">Continue reading...</a>Cecil the lionUS newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:44:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/01/jericho-not-dead-cecil-the-lion-zimbabwePhotograph: Paula French/Rex ShutterstockCecil, a 13-year-old lion with a distinctive black mane, was a popular tourist attraction at Hwange national parkAmanda Holpuch in New York2015-08-02T15:44:00ZHoliday guide to Sardinia’s best beaches, plus restaurants and hotelshttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/02/holiday-guide-sardinias-best-beaches-restaurants-hotels
<p>Sardinia has fantastic, gorgeous beaches. Liz Boulter loses herself among them, and picks the best, and surprisingly affordable, places to eat and stay</p><p>Italy offers so much to holidaymakers: food and wine, art and architecture, high peaks and bosomy Tuscan hills, but relatively few Brits come here for sun and sand. To UK tastes, Italy simply doesn’t do seaside very well: beaches are often given over to hotel and bar concessions, with rows of sunbeds differentiated only by the colour of their umbrellas and the trashiness of their euro-pop. Only a corner at the least attractive end will be <em>spiaggia libera</em> – for people who just want to rock up and lie on a towel.</p><p>Sardinia isn’t like that: lists of the island’s best beaches run into the hundreds, and there are many more unnamed coves and wedges of white, silver or golden sand around its 1,000km-plus of coastline, peninsulas and islands. Some popular beaches are concessionised – though even these tend to be so spacious that plenty of spiaggia libera remains. There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/02/holiday-guide-sardinias-best-beaches-restaurants-hotels">Continue reading...</a>SardiniaItalyEuropeBeach holidaysFood and drinkHotelsSummer holidaysTravelSun, 02 Aug 2015 06:00:08 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/02/holiday-guide-sardinias-best-beaches-restaurants-hotelsPhotograph: AlamyThe wide soft sands of huge Su Giudeu beach in the south of Sardinia is on a spit between lagoon and sea.Photograph: AlamyThe wide soft sands of huge Su Giudeu beach in the south of Sardinia is on a spit between lagoon and sea.Liz Boulter2015-08-02T06:00:08ZSherlock will continue while stars are committed to the show, says Moffathttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/01/sherlock-benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-steven-moffat
<ul><li>Showrunner in LA: ‘I’d like to see them age – not because I’m a sadist’</li><li>Moffat ‘staggered’ by government threat to BBC funding</li></ul><p>Sherlock fans have grown familiar with the waiting game between seasons, but they may be encouraged that showrunner Steven Moffat says he could see the project “going on for a long while”.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/26/benedict-cumberbatch-inside-story-hamlet-sherlock-school-actor">The outrageous fortune of Benedict Cumberbatch</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/01/sherlock-benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-steven-moffat">Continue reading...</a>SherlockSteven MoffatCrime dramaTelevisionTelevision & radioCultureDramaPBSUS televisionMediaTelevision industryBenedict CumberbatchMartin FreemanLos AngelesCaliforniaUS newsWorld newsUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 21:48:08 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/01/sherlock-benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-steven-moffatPhotograph: Robert Viglasky/BBCBenedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes.Associated Press in Beverly Hills2015-08-01T21:48:08ZMusicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestrahttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/01/save-the-bassoon-campaign-endangered-instrument
Initiative hopes to encourage young players to take up reed instrument and pave way for promoting other ‘endangered species’<p>It is widely understood that lions, pandas and polar bears are all in serious jeopardy … The fact that bassoons now share this endangered status may come as more of a surprise, but this summer the reed instrument has become a strong candidate for international protection, according to fans of the sound of the symphony orchestra.</p><p>A campaign called Save the Bassoon now aims to remind the public of the importance of this engaging member of the woodwind section and to encourage young musicians to take it up. Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/01/save-the-bassoon-campaign-endangered-instrument">Continue reading...</a>Classical musicMusicCultureUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 22:35:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/01/save-the-bassoon-campaign-endangered-instrumentPhotograph: AlamySave the Bassoon wants to encourage young musicians to take the instrument up. Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: AlamySave the Bassoon wants to encourage young musicians to take the instrument up. Photograph: AlamyVanessa Thorpe2015-08-01T22:35:04ZWith dark tales of sex and drugs, is the Weeknd the next face of R&B?http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/01/the-weeknd-next-face-r-and-b-michael-jackson
<p>In a music scene dominated by women such as Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, the Canadian is tipped to become the defining male pop star of a generation</p><p>For several years, an introverted Canadian singer of Ethiopian descent, known to R&amp;B lovers for his plaintive voice and atmospheric, after-party, comedown groove, has been on the cusp of becoming music’s next big thing. But each time stardom beckoned, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/nov/08/the-weeknd-sense-and-sensibility">Abel Tesfaye</a> – a native of the dreary Toronto suburb of Scarborough, who sings, writes and produces as the Weeknd – seemed to demur.</p><p>Only five years ago, Tesfaye, 25, was folding shirts at a Toronto outlet of American Apparel and posting audio tracks on YouTube. With the release this month of a second studio album, <em>Beauty Behind the Madness</em>, backed by a compelling single, Can’t Feel My Face, which has a groove and feel reminiscent of an updated Michael Jackson hit, any residual sense of anonymity could be about to be irrevocably lost.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/01/the-weeknd-next-face-r-and-b-michael-jackson">Continue reading...</a>The WeekndR&BPop and rockMusicCultureMichael JacksonCanadaUrban musicSat, 01 Aug 2015 22:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/01/the-weeknd-next-face-r-and-b-michael-jacksonPhotograph: Rex ShutterstockThe Weeknd performing at the Juno awards in Canada this year.Photograph: Rex ShutterstockThe Weeknd performing at the Juno awards in Canada this year.Edward Helmore, in New York2015-08-01T22:30:00ZArsenal 1-0 Chelsea | Community Shieldhttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/community-shield-arsenal-chelsea-oxlade-chamberlain
<p>It has taken 14 attempts, spread over 11 years, and in the most difficult moments Ars&egrave;ne Wenger has looked as if he would cheerfully throttle Jos&eacute; Mourinho with his own tie, but finally Arsenal’s manager knows what it feels like to get one over his bete noire. It has been a long time coming and, psychologically, it should do them the power of good to break a run that has hurt Wenger far more than he would probably confess.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/aug/02/community-shield-arsenal-chelsea-five-things">Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea: five things we learned from the Community Shield</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/community-shield-arsenal-chelsea-oxlade-chamberlain">Continue reading...</a>Community ShieldChelseaArsenalSportFriendliesFootballJosé MourinhoArsène WengerSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:06:31 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/community-shield-arsenal-chelsea-oxlade-chamberlainPhotograph: Stuart Macfarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty ImagesArsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain celebrates his goal in the FA Community Shield against Chelsea at Wembley. Photograph: Stuart Macfarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty ImagesPhotograph: Stuart Macfarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty ImagesArsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain celebrates his goal in the FA Community Shield against Chelsea at Wembley. Photograph: Stuart Macfarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty ImagesDaniel Taylor at Wembley2015-08-02T16:06:31ZChristian Benteke shows why Liverpool paid £32.5m for him with wonder volleyhttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/liverpool-christian-benteke-brendan-rodgers
• Brendan Rodgers: ‘You won’t see too many better goals ’<br />• Benteke scores on debut in Liverpool’s 2-1 win at Swindon<p>It was one of those moments that makes you either stand up from your chair or fall back into it, and for Christian Benteke the perfect way to mark his first appearance for Liverpool. Shortly after half-time, and finding himself just outside Swindon’s area, the striker collected a pass on his chest and with the ball in mid air, thundered a right-foot volley into the top corner of the net. Pre-season or not, it was some goal and some way for the &pound;32.5m man to introduce himself to a new set of fans.</p><p>Certainly the away contingent who filled the Adkins Family stand were delighted with the goal that had just been scored in front of them, and for Benteke there may have been a sense of relief given how this contest had gone for him to that point. The Belgian’s display had been scratchy to say the least and, in fairness, what could have been expected from someone playing his first meaningful football for some weeks having been the subject of a drawn-out transfer from Aston Villa.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/liverpool-christian-benteke-brendan-rodgers">Continue reading...</a>FriendliesLiverpoolBrendan RodgersSwindonChristian BentekeFootballSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 19:07:38 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/liverpool-christian-benteke-brendan-rodgersPhotograph: Jason Dawson/Rex ShutterstockChristian Benteke celebrates with Roberto Firmino after opening the scoring for Liverpool against Swindon.Sachin Nakrani at the County Ground2015-08-02T19:07:38ZAshes 2015: England can break the sequence despite loss of Jimmy Andersonhttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/the-ashes-england-australia
In a series of swinging fortunes, England will be wary of an Australia comeback in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge as they close in on regaining the Ashes<p>So in the aftermath of their comprehensive win at Edgbaston, England have that elusive thing called momentum going into the fourth Test at Trent Bridge starting on Thursday. Or do they? They had plenty of momentum after the victory in Cardiff too, and look what happened at Lord’s. Then the momentum was with Australia after that, and much good it did them in Birmingham.</p><p>Isn’t the current situation similar to the one England found themselves in after their draw at Edgbaston in 2009, with a win in the fourth Test all that was required to take the Ashes? They lost by an innings at Headingley to leave things in the balance for the final Test. The present sequence of England swinging violently between the twin imposters of triumph and disaster – WLWLWLW starting with the victory over West Indies in Grenada in May – has already made them the most consistently inconsistent side in the history of Test cricket.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/the-ashes-england-australia">Continue reading...</a>Ashes 2015England cricket teamCricketThe AshesAustralia cricket teamMichael ClarkeAustralia sportSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 21:16:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/the-ashes-england-australiaPhotograph: James Marsh/BPI/Rex ShutterstockMark Wood is likely to return to open England's attack with Stuart Broad at Trent Bridge. Photograph: James Marsh/BPI/Rex ShutterstockPhotograph: James Marsh/BPI/Rex ShutterstockMark Wood is likely to return to open England's attack with Stuart Broad at Trent Bridge. Photograph: James Marsh/BPI/Rex ShutterstockMike Selvey2015-08-02T21:16:00ZDoping test revelations in athletics will be greeted with dismay, but no surprisehttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/athletics-doping-revelations-dismay-but-no-surprise
<p>The seemingly endless race between chemists, dopers and anti-doping bodies goes on, but at least now we know the potential scale of the problem <br></p><p>It is 14 years since Paula Radcliffe sat in the stands at the world athletics championships in Edmonton, Canada, and held up a sign protesting against the decision to allow Olga Yegorova to take part in the 5,000m. A drug test on the Russian runner had indicated the presence of EPO, a banned blood-boosting substance, but a technicality allowed her to compete in the event – and to take the gold medal. Now we know, thanks to the findings handed by a whistleblower to the Sunday Times and ARD, the German broadcasting network, that Yegorova was just <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/anti-doping-agency-suspect-testing-claims-800-athletes-olympics">the tip of a very large iceberg</a>.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/anti-doping-agency-suspect-testing-claims-800-athletes-olympics">Anti-doping agency 'alarmed' by claims of suspect testing by 800 athletes</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/athletics-doping-revelations-dismay-but-no-surprise">Continue reading...</a>Drugs in sportSportCyclingAthleticsLance ArmstrongIAAFWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 13:25:40 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/athletics-doping-revelations-dismay-but-no-surprisePhotograph: Photosport Int/Rex ShutterstockLance Armstrong in the Tour de France in 1999. Cycling’s governing body has led the way in promoting tests to reveal suspicious activity in the wake of Armstrong’s downfall.Richard Williams2015-08-02T13:25:40ZJean-Pierre Drucker pips Britain’s Ben Swift in London-Surrey Classichttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/ben-swift-london-surrey-classic-cycling
• Luxembourg rider wins sprint finish in the Mall to clinch title<br />• Second year running Team Sky rider Swift has been edged out at the end<p>Ben Swift endured another near miss on The Mall as Luxembourg’s Jean-Pierre Drucker beat the 27-year-old Briton in a four-way sprint to claim the RideLondon-Surrey Classic in blazing sunshine on Sunday.</p><p>Team Sky’s lead rider, who was pipped on the line by a fellow Sheffield-born rider Adam Blythe in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/10/cycle-festival-london-bradley-wiggins-bertha" title="">horrendous conditions last year</a>, joined an eight-man breakaway with 30km to go which whittled down to four by the <em>flamme rouge</em>, but Drucker slipstreamed him until attacking in the final 200m. The young Dutchman Mike Teunissen chased hard but ran out of road to finish second, with Swift third.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/ben-swift-london-surrey-classic-cycling">Continue reading...</a>CyclingSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 19:35:28 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/ben-swift-london-surrey-classic-cyclingPhotograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesJean-Pierre Drucker, right, beats Mike Teunissen, far left, and Ben Swift, second right, to the line in the RideLondon-Surrey Classic. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesJean-Pierre Drucker, right, beats Mike Teunissen, far left, and Ben Swift, second right, to the line in the RideLondon-Surrey Classic. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty ImagesLawrence Ostlere2015-08-02T19:35:28ZCaptain Michael Clarke has two Ashes Tests to justify place for Australia | Jason Gillespiehttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/michael-clarke-ashes-australia-england-cricket-fourth-test-trent-bridge
Australia’s captain has been honest in his evaluation of his batting performances so far but if the lean spell continues, his time in Test cricket may be up<p>Only one person will know whether the Australia captain, Michael Clarke, truly has a future in Test cricket beyond this Ashes series, and that is the player himself. Scrutiny over his place in the side has intensified after the eight-wicket defeat at Edgbaston, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/31/michael-clarke-australia-captain-let-down-side-in-ashes-against-england">where he was honest enough to admit that</a>, as a batsman, he has yet to get off the plane.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/31/michael-clarke-australia-captain-let-down-side-in-ashes-against-england">Michael Clarke: Australia have been playing with 10 men in Ashes</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/michael-clarke-ashes-australia-england-cricket-fourth-test-trent-bridge">Continue reading...</a>Michael ClarkeAshes 2015The AshesAustralia cricket teamAustralia sportEngland cricket teamCricketSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 13:21:13 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/michael-clarke-ashes-australia-england-cricket-fourth-test-trent-bridgePhotograph: Philip Brown/ReutersMichael Clarke has made 94 runs in his six innings so far this Ashes series and further questions will be asked if his lean spell continues. Photograph: Philip Brown/ReutersPhotograph: Philip Brown/ReutersMichael Clarke has made 94 runs in his six innings so far this Ashes series and further questions will be asked if his lean spell continues. Photograph: Philip Brown/ReutersJason Gillespie2015-08-02T13:21:13ZÁngel Di María awaits PSG medical after Manchester United ‘agree £44.3m fee’http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/angel-di-maria-psg-medical-manchester-united-agree-fee
• Forward scheduled for talks with French club over transfer from Old Trafford<br />• Louis Van Gaal expected to move quickly to sign replacement<p>&Aacute;ngel Di Mar&iacute;a is on the brink of completing a &pound;44.3m move to Paris Saint-Germain after Manchester United opted to cut their losses on the Argentina winger. The 27-year-old was due to arrive in Doha from South America on Sunday for talks with PSG officials before a medical in Qatar, where the French club’s owners are based.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/01/louis-van-gaal-david-de-gea-manchester-united-real-madrid">Louis van Gaal tells Manchester United board to sell David de Gea – reports</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/angel-di-maria-psg-medical-manchester-united-agree-fee">Continue reading...</a>Ángel Di MaríaParis Saint-GermainManchester UnitedTransfer windowLouis van GaalFootballSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:20:53 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/angel-di-maria-psg-medical-manchester-united-agree-feePhotograph: Tom Jenkins/GuardianÁngel Di María joined Manchester United from Real Madrid last summer but after a good start his form dipped. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the GuardianPhotograph: Tom Jenkins/GuardianÁngel Di María joined Manchester United from Real Madrid last summer but after a good start his form dipped. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the GuardianLouise Taylor2015-08-02T12:20:53ZRio triathlon overshadowed by doping and virus fearshttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/rio-triathalon-overshadowed-by-water-and-doping-fears-olympics
<p>Competitors taking part in Olympic qualifier oblivious to revelations about industrial-scale doping in international sport, and fears over water quality remain<br></p><p>In the biggest test yet of preparations for the 2016 Games, hundreds of Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls swam, cycled and ran under the limpid blue skies of Copacabana over the weekend, but the glorious scenes were partly overshadowed by fears about water quality and new revelations of industrial-scale doping in international sport.</p><p>The triathlon qualifiers, which saw podium finishes for two UK athletes, came at the start of a week of competition and celebration as Rio de Janeiro moved into the final year of its countdown towards the opening ceremony next 5 August at the Maracan&atilde; stadium. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/rio-triathalon-overshadowed-by-water-and-doping-fears-olympics">Continue reading...</a>TriathlonOlympic Games 2016Olympic GamesSportDrugs in sportAthleticsWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 20:07:53 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/rio-triathalon-overshadowed-by-water-and-doping-fears-olympicsPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APNon Stanford takes silver in the women’s triathlon.Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro2015-08-02T20:07:53ZChelsea’s Emma Hayes keeps FA Cup final winners focused on more trophieshttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/chelsea-notts-county-fa-cup-final-wembley-emma-hayes
<p>• Chelsea Ladies still in hunt for three more competitions<br>• Manager Emma Hayes says she is relishing the pressure</p><p>This was a big occasion for women’s football: the first FA Cup final to take place at Wembley, where a warm afternoon added to the sense that here was a game basking in its moment. Beforehand, players from Chelsea and Notts County had talked about how special it would be to finally walk on to that turf in front of a record crowd to compete for a trophy that neither side had won before.</p><p>Immediately after their win, however, Chelsea allowed themselves to imagine the rest of the season in a haze of ticker tape. “Of course I want them to enjoy it,” said the manager, Emma Hayes, “[but] winning gives you a taste. I’m pretty certain that they’ll wake up and say: ‘We want the next one.’”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/chelsea-notts-county-fa-cup-final-wembley-emma-hayes">Continue reading...</a>Women's footballFootballSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 20:59:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/chelsea-notts-county-fa-cup-final-wembley-emma-hayesPhotograph: Michael Regan/The FA via Getty ImagesEniola Aluko and Gemma Davison of Chelsea celebrate after the FA Cup final match against Notts County at Wembley.Photograph: Kieran Galvin/REX Shutterstock/Kieran Galvin/REX ShutterstockGeorgina Turner at Wembley2015-08-02T20:59:06ZNerveless Inbee Park claims Women’s British Open to seal career grand slamhttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/women-british-open-golf-turnberry
• Park shoots final round 65 to finish 12 under and claim a seventh major<br />• Fellow South Korean Ko Jin-young comes second, three shots back<p>There are two sure signs to look for when a golfer is succumbing to the pressure of a big occasion. The swing gets shorter and faster. And putts start coming up short of the hole. By such measures, the play of Inbee Park in the final round of the 2015 Women’s British Open was nothing short of spectacular.</p><p>In claiming her seventh major title – she has won six of the past 14 – the 27-year-old South Korean’s metronomic method never altered in pace or tempo and the putts kept going in. Over the last 12 holes the world No1 made five birdies and an eagle en route to shooting a seven-under par 65 and a 12-under total of 276. Enough said.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/women-british-open-golf-turnberry">Continue reading...</a>GolfSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 18:00:16 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/women-british-open-golf-turnberryPhotograph: Kenny Smith/PAInbee Park celebrates with her the seventh major title of her career after a three-shot victory at Turnberry. Photograph: Kenny Smith/PAPhotograph: Kenny Smith/PAInbee Park celebrates with her the seventh major title of her career after a three-shot victory at Turnberry. Photograph: Kenny Smith/PAJohn Huggan at Turnberry2015-08-02T18:00:16ZBT Sport red-faced after problems hit Community Shield online and apphttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/bt-sport-community-shield-online-app-community-shield
• Live streams of Arsenal v Chelsea game fail for some users<br />• BT Sport subscribers take to Twitter to complain<p>BT Sport were left embarrassed on the opening day of what they are hoping will be their breakthrough season after the broadcasters’ website and app struggled to cope with the demand for coverage of Sunday’s Community Shield between Arsenal and Chelsea.</p><p>BT, whose &pound;350m investment in exclusive rights to the Champions League and Europa League for the coming season has upped the stakes in their rivalry with Sky, had offered live streaming of the game online and on their app.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/bt-sport-community-shield-online-app-community-shield">Continue reading...</a>BT SportSportCommunity ShieldMediaFootballSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:56:43 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/bt-sport-community-shield-online-app-community-shieldPhotograph: Andrew Matthews/PAArsenal and Chelsea battle for supremacy at Wembley, but some BT Sport online and app viewers could not see the action. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PAPhotograph: Andrew Matthews/PAArsenal and Chelsea battle for supremacy at Wembley, but some BT Sport online and app viewers could not see the action. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PAGuardian Sport2015-08-02T17:56:43ZAshes: 10 things to look out for in England v Australia at Trent Bridgehttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/ashes-10-things-england-australia-trent-bridge
Mark Wood and Jos Buttler to step up, Peter Siddle and Shaun Marsh to step in, a move down the order for Michael Clarke and rifts in the tourists’ dressing room<p>The suggestion is that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/01/ashes-2015-liam-plunkett-mark-footitt-england-fourth-test-sqaud">Mark Wood will come in</a> at Trent Bridge, where his first-class record is an impressive 15 wickets at an average of 22.53. The last part of that sentence won’t mean a thing by the time he kicks off that imaginary wall for his first delivery. He will be expected to play a more sustained role than the “up and at them” one he has excelled at so far. Trevor Bayliss divulged that the bowling coach Ottis Gibson thinks Wood should be given a chance to bowl with the new ball, something he has done in only six of his 48 first-class innings.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/ashes-10-things-england-australia-trent-bridge">Continue reading...</a>Ashes 2015England cricket teamAustralia cricket teamCricketThe AshesAustralia sportSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:02:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/02/ashes-10-things-england-australia-trent-bridgePhotograph: Andrew Fosker/Rex ShutterstockJos Buttler’s decision to trudge off instead of review his lbw decision in England’s victory at Edgbaston spoke of a man frustrated at the state of his game.Photograph: Andrew Fosker/Rex ShutterstockJos Buttler’s decision to trudge off instead of review his lbw decision in England’s victory at Edgbaston spoke of a man frustrated at the state of his game.Vithushan Ehantharajah2015-08-02T17:02:07ZRussia has been singled out over doping, says former athletics coachhttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/valentin-maslakov-russia-singled-out-doping-drugs
<p>Valentin Maslakov argues performance-enhancing drugs are a problem everywhere and ‘Russia is not a leader in this area’</p><p>Top Russian sports officials have responded with anger to new accusations that athletes suspected of doping won most of the country’s athletics medals between 2001 and 2012, arguing that performance-enhancing drugs were a problem everywhere.<br /></p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/anti-doping-agency-suspect-testing-claims-800-athletes-olympics">Anti-doping agency 'alarmed' by claims of suspect testing by 800 athletes</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/valentin-maslakov-russia-singled-out-doping-drugs">Continue reading...</a>Drugs in sportRussiaEuropeSportWorld newsAthleticsGermanyOlympicsDocumentaryFactual TVTelevision & radioSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:07:56 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/valentin-maslakov-russia-singled-out-doping-drugsPhotograph: Kevin Frayer/APOlga Kaniskina competing in the 20km walk at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Kaniskina and four other race walkers were banned by Russia’s anti-doping agency.Alec Luhn in Moscow2015-08-02T16:07:56ZCesc Fàbregas and Eden Hazard go missing and hand Arsenal initiativehttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/community-shield-arsenal-chelsea-hazard
Arsène Wenger’s midfield was getting the ball to attacking players quickly while Chelsea failed to use their most creative players well<p>In their final preparation game for the Premier League campaign, Arsenal and Chelsea were still ironing out flaws in their approach – and while Ars&egrave;ne Wenger’s side emerged victorious, the two teams faced similar issues.</p><p>The headline news concerned the identity of both centre-forwards: Wenger repeated his FA Cup final selection by choosing Theo Walcott rather than Olivier Giroud while Jos&eacute; Mourinho was without Diego Costa, so played Lo&iuml;c R&eacute;my. Consequently, both teams lacked a traditional penalty-box presence but had great pace up front – and therefore needed through balls from midfield.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/community-shield-arsenal-chelsea-hazard">Continue reading...</a>Football tacticsCommunity ShieldFootballArsenalChelseaSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:49:50 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/community-shield-arsenal-chelsea-hazardPhotograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/APTheo Walcott played as Arsenal’s lone centre-forward and helped keep the Chelsea defence deeper than usual. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/APPhotograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/APTheo Walcott played as Arsenal’s lone centre-forward and helped keep the Chelsea defence deeper than usual. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/APMichael Cox2015-08-02T16:49:50ZEngland’s Ian Bell warns of Australia backlash with the Ashes in reachhttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/the-ashes-england-ian-bell-australia-fourth-test-trent-bridge
• England No3 batsman predicts Australia will hit back hard in final two Tests<br />• Australia hint that Shaun Marsh could come into team for Trent Bridge<p>England will blow off the cobwebs from their post-Edgbaston celebrations with a game of football at Nottingham Forest’s training ground as they turn their attention to Thursday’s fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge with Ian Bell warning that Australia are likely to hit back hard.</p><p>Leading the series 2-1 after Friday’s eight-wicket win in Birmingham, Alastair Cook’s side have opted to forgo a scheduled day off on Monday for some additional batting practice before heading along the bank of the Trent for a kickabout at the Championship club’s academy.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/the-ashes-england-ian-bell-australia-fourth-test-trent-bridge">Continue reading...</a>Ashes 2015England cricket teamCricketThe AshesTrevor BaylissAustralia cricket teamAustralia sportSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:52:21 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/the-ashes-england-ian-bell-australia-fourth-test-trent-bridgePhotograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty ImagesIan Bell, left, has praised England’s coach Trevor Bayliss, right, for his relaxed approach. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty ImagesIan Bell, left, has praised England’s coach Trevor Bayliss, right, for his relaxed approach. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty ImagesAli Martin2015-08-02T16:52:21ZRafael Nadal beats Fabio Fognini to win Hamburg Open then cramps his stylehttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/rafael-nadal-fabio-fognini-hamburg-open-title
• Spaniard has to stretch and stand on one leg in post-match press conference<br />• World No10 seals third title of year with 7-5, 7-5 victory<p>For the second time in as many months, Rafael Nadal leaves Germany with a trophy in his racket bag and a spring in his step. Well, almost. The Spaniard, who won on grass in Stuttgart seven weeks ago, came through a gruelling match against Fabio Fognini 7-5, 7-5 to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2015/aug/02/rafael-nadal-v-fabio-fognini-hamburg-open-final-2015-live" title="">win the Hamburg Open final</a> and seal his third title of the year.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2015/aug/02/rafael-nadal-v-fabio-fognini-hamburg-open-final-2015-live">Rafael Nadal v Fabio Fognini: Hamburg Open final 2015 – as it happened | Les Roopanarine</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/rafael-nadal-fabio-fognini-hamburg-open-title">Continue reading...</a>Rafael NadalTennisSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:36:22 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/rafael-nadal-fabio-fognini-hamburg-open-titlePhotograph: Daniel Reinhardt/ Dpa/CorbisRafael Nadal secured his third title of the year with victory in Hamburg. Photograph: Daniel Reinhardt/ Dpa/CorbisPhotograph: Daniel Reinhardt/ Dpa/CorbisRafael Nadal secured his third title of the year with victory in Hamburg. Photograph: Daniel Reinhardt/ Dpa/CorbisLes Roopanarine2015-08-02T14:36:22ZYann M’Vila and Leroy Fer set to add muscle to Sunderland’s midfieldhttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/yann-mvila-leroy-fer-sunderland-midfield
• Rubin Kazan’s M’Vila scheduled for medical on Sunday <br />• Fer set to join on season’s loan from QPR<p>Dick Advocaat hopes to be in a position to include two new midfielders, Yann M’Vila and Leroy Fer, in the Sunderland squad he will take to Leicester City on Saturday. Significantly, both players are tall, powerful and physically imposing.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/angel-di-maria-psg-medical-manchester-united-agree-fee">&Aacute;ngel Di Mar&iacute;a awaits PSG medical after Manchester United ‘agree &pound;44.3m fee’</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/yann-mvila-leroy-fer-sunderland-midfield">Continue reading...</a>SunderlandTransfer windowQPRRubin KazanFootballSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:37:17 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/yann-mvila-leroy-fer-sunderland-midfieldPhotograph: Ben Radford/ Visionhaus/CorbisThe France midfielder Yann M'Vila is close to joining Sunderland from Rubin Kazan after he spent last season on loan to Internazionale. Photograph: Ben Radford/ Visionhaus/CorbisPhotograph: Ben Radford/ Visionhaus/CorbisThe France midfielder Yann M'Vila is close to joining Sunderland from Rubin Kazan after he spent last season on loan to Internazionale. Photograph: Ben Radford/ Visionhaus/CorbisLouise Taylor2015-08-02T14:37:17ZAndré Ayew’s Roy of the Rovers moment showed off his rich talent | Jonathan Wilsonhttp://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/aug/02/andre-ayew-swansea-city-ghana-roy-of-the-rovers
<p>Football is a team game, we are incessantly told, but there are always moments when the individual lifts a side to new heights and makes himself a legend in the process</p><p>In some rare games, conventions fall away. Tactical schema are ripped up, the rationale about the importance of the team disappears, and the match becomes the struggle of one player against the rest.</p><p>They’re the days when Roy of the Rovers seems true to life and, however dangerous they may be in convincing individuals that they can win games single-handed, there’s a visceral charge about them. It’s in those games that football takes on a mythic quality: one man against a massed opponent.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/aug/02/andre-ayew-swansea-city-ghana-roy-of-the-rovers">Continue reading...</a>Swansea CityAston VillaFootballSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/aug/02/andre-ayew-swansea-city-ghana-roy-of-the-roversPhotograph: Jan Kruger/Getty ImagesAndré Ayew, playing for his new club Swansea City, against Nottingham Forest in a pre-season friendly.Jonathan Wilson2015-08-02T09:30:00ZHull City chairman Assem Allam brands FA ‘amateurs’ over name change blockhttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/hull-city-assem-allam-fa-amateurs
• FA rejects chairman’s attempts to rename club Hull Tigers<br />• The shorter the name, the better, says Allam<p>The Hull City chairman Assem Allam has labelled the Football Association“amateurs” after <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/11/fa-reject-hull-city-application-change-name-hull-tigers" title="">the governing body blocked his attempted rebranding</a> of the club for a second time.</p><p>Allam wanted to rename the Championship club Hull Tigers believing it would be easier to market the club and bring in increased commercial revenue but his attempts were rejected by the FA Council last month. “It is a sad day that most of the people who make the decisions are amateurs,” <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/6570197/Amateurs.html" title="">Allam told the Sun</a>. “To go global, we need to market ourselves. The shorter the name, the better.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/hull-city-assem-allam-fa-amateurs">Continue reading...</a>Hull CityThe FAFootball politicsFootballSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:16:38 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/hull-city-assem-allam-fa-amateursPhotograph: Richard Sellers/PAAssem Allam: 'You don’t go out to the world and say "We are Hull City Tigers Association Football Club". If you do that, expect to fail.' Photograph: Richard Sellers/PAPhotograph: Richard Sellers/PAAssem Allam: 'You don’t go out to the world and say "We are Hull City Tigers Association Football Club". If you do that, expect to fail.' Photograph: Richard Sellers/PAReuters2015-08-02T12:16:38ZCalais will haunt Cameron – it gives EU ‘outs’ the perfect showreel | Matthew d’Anconahttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/calais-haunt-cameron-eu-referendum-showreel
Footage of young men running at lorries, trying to make it to England at any price, will be abused by those who think Britain has lost control of its destiny<p>So ends the honeymoon: the turmoil in Calais and its consequences in Kent have finally <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/30/david-cameron-migrant-swarm-language-condemned" title="">dragged David Cameron</a> from the election winner’s podium down to political ground level and a harsh audit of his response to the cross-Channel crisis.</p><p>Labour, of course, is distracted to the point of irrelevance, squirming in a chrysalis that occasionally assumes the shape of a fossil. The most that the party’s interim leader, Harriet Harman, has mustered so far is a letter to Cameron, demanding that compensation be sought from France for those who have been inconvenienced. Hardly raises the pulse, does it?</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/calais-haunt-cameron-eu-referendum-showreel">Continue reading...</a>EU referendumMigrationDavid CameronEuropean UnionForeign policyPoliticsUK newsEuropeWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:51:50 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/calais-haunt-cameron-eu-referendum-showreelPhotograph: Yui Mok/PAMigrants at Calais. 'The proposition that Brexit would stop them in their tracks shows a heartbreaking lack of understanding of human nature.' Photograph: Yui Mok/PAPhotograph: Yui Mok/PAMigrants at Calais. 'The proposition that Brexit would stop them in their tracks shows a heartbreaking lack of understanding of human nature.' Photograph: Yui Mok/PAMatthew d'Ancona2015-08-02T16:51:50ZBBC’s rivals aren’t feeling the pinch as much as green paper suggestshttp://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2015/aug/02/bbc-green-paper-sky-bt-amazon-netflix
Results from broadcasters ITV and Sky and big moves from BT and Amazon Prime show corporation is in danger of being left behind<p>Over recent weeks the media story – with a slight diversion for “Lord Coke”, bless him – has been the BBC. First a new licence fee deal, hastily agreed behind closed doors, giving it &pound;700m worth of responsibility for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/06/bbc-pay-cost-free-tv-licences-over-75s-fee-deal" title="">over-75s’ licence fees </a>and an effective budget cut over the next five years of between 10% and 15%. And then the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/16/bbc-review-government-green-paper-john-whittingdale" title="">government’s green paper</a> kicking off the Royal Charter renewal debate, asking a string of entirely predictable and perfectly proper questions about the BBC’s purposes, scope, functions and funding. The government document was denounced by the BBC as little short of a full-on political assault – “a recipe for a diminished BBC” - but questions over its size and scale, its market impact and claims that the BBC crowds out commercial competitors loom large. There are issues that clearly need investigation, evidence and debate in relation to the BBC’s presence online, where it finds itself toe-to-toe with a press industry struggling for commercial viability. But what about its impact in the heartland arena of TV – where the big money is spent?</p><p>Conveniently, last week offered a chance to look at exactly how the BBC’s commercial rivals are spending that money, and how well they are doing at generating a return. And what a week they had – profits galore! <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/28/itv-profits-up-25-despite-continuing-decline-in-ratings" title="">ITV reported a 23% increase</a> in half-year profits to just under &pound;400m. To put that in context, full-year profits after the Carlton/Granada merger peaked at &pound;360m in 2006 before the advertising recession and the global financial crisis saw them plunge to just &pound;108m in 2009. So with the City expecting full-year profits up to around &pound;830-850m, this is on course to be ITV’s strongest year since it became one company and possibly one of its strongest ever. All that in the face of its worst audience performance in 15 years, reaffirming a long-standing truth about ITV – that being beaten by the BBC in the ratings rarely has bad commercial consequences.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2015/aug/02/bbc-green-paper-sky-bt-amazon-netflix">Continue reading...</a>BBCMediaBBC licence feeSky plcTelevision industryBT TVITV channelITV plcMedia businessAmazon Prime Instant VideoSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:02:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2015/aug/02/bbc-green-paper-sky-bt-amazon-netflixPhotograph: Anthony Devlin/PAThe BBC could be in danger of being left behind by its commercial rivals. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PAPhotograph: Anthony Devlin/PAThe BBC could be in danger of being left behind by its commercial rivals. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PASteve Hewlett2015-08-02T17:02:01ZHow I stopped worrying and learned to love summer holidays with the kids | Alice O’Keeffehttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/summer-holidays-kids-childcare
The prospect of six childcare-free weeks sends some people into a planning frenzy. But my sons and I have found a blank slate can be brilliant fun<p>A few weeks ago, if you’d asked me to pick a word to express my feelings about the impending summer holidays, I would have had no hesitation: dread. Last summer was beyond a nightmare. I was settling into a new job, and we decided to move house too. This was in the middle of August, so for the entire duration of the move – the endless paperwork, the packing, the actual moving and the unpacking – we had no regular childcare at all for our two kids, who were then four and just-turned-two.</p><p>The trauma was such that I have retained only a few scattered memories – the moment the removal guy turned up with a van that was half the size it should have been, for example; the time I full-on cried in front of the gas man. What I do know is that by September my partner and I were physically and emotionally broken. The day I dropped my older son off for his first day at school I wept hot tears of joy.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/summer-holidays-kids-childcare">Continue reading...</a>ChildrenSocietySummer holidaysFamily holidaysChildcareParents and parentingFamilyLife and styleUK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:23:42 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/summer-holidays-kids-childcarePhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA‘When I thought about the six childcare-free weeks<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/16/playschemes-and-affordable-summer-childcare-getting-harder-to-find"> </a>stretching all the way to autumn, I would experience an unpleasant little bump in my heart-rate.’Alice O'Keeffe2015-08-02T14:23:42ZNever mind driverless cars – we need intelligent transport systems | Paul Masonhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/31/never-mind-driverless-cars-need-intelligent-transport-systems
Rather than apply advanced technology to redesign the car, wouldn’t it be more revolutionary to fully realise the potential of automated road transport?<p>I can picture now every strange quirk of the cars I rode in as a kid. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Popular#/media/File:RRT339_020510_CPS_(4576174140).jpg" title="">Ford Popular</a> had indicators that were levers, jerking out to signal at the pull of a wire. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor#/media/File:Morris-Minor--Series--II--w.jpg" title="">Morris Minor</a> had a hole in the floor, beneath the carpet, so a child could pee without stopping on the overnight drive to Cornwall. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Anglia#/media/File:1960_Ford_105E_Anglia,_licence_AL-17-79,_pic6.JPG" title="">Ford Anglia</a> was like a science-fiction vehicle made of chrome, rust and cream paint.</p><p>But in all of them there was one constant: the driver, wrestling the reluctant gear stick, calmly swerving around stray animals, always ready to respond to the inevitable red light on the dashboard by pulling over and fiddling with a wire until it went away. That was my dad, and he was only in the second generation of car drivers in his family. I am the third and if I’d had kids, they would have been the last. Because if the technology giants get their way, the era of the driverless car is coming – and that reassuring, male role thing of being master of a hurtling chunk of steel will soon be over.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/31/never-mind-driverless-cars-need-intelligent-transport-systems">Continue reading...</a>Automotive industryBusinessTransport policyGoogleTechnologySun, 02 Aug 2015 19:00:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/31/never-mind-driverless-cars-need-intelligent-transport-systemsPhotograph: Google/RexGoogle’s self-driving car: can cope with America grid-pattern towns, but how would it cope with a city such as London?Photograph: Google/RexGoogle’s self-driving car: can cope with America grid-pattern towns, but how would it cope with a city such as London?Paul Mason2015-08-02T19:00:03ZThe Guardian view on Amnesty International’s call to legalise sex work: divisive and distracting | Editorialhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/guardian-view-amnesty-international-call-to-legalise-sex-work-divisive-and-distracting
Irrespective of whether the sex trade should be legalised for adults, this is not a policy question for human rights organisations<p>Amnesty International is one of the great organisations of the modern world. Few can have done more to establish the simple propositions that human rights matter and that they matter for everyone. It has exalted&nbsp;the lowly and brought down the mighty from their seats. And it is poised to make a serious mistake.</p><p>The organisation’s international council meeting in Dublin which starts on Friday this week <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.uk/consultation-draft-policy" title="">will consider a motion</a> urging that sex work be decriminalised. This is in itself a contestable position. There are <a href="http://www.catwinternational.org/" title="">many feminists</a> who recoil from it. The letter signed by <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/11770820/Sex-work-battle-Hollywood-actresses-v-Amnesty-International.html" title="">film actors</a> who are normally reliable allies of Amnesty shows how damaging it is. On the other hand there is a body of professional opinion quoted in <a href="https://www.amnesty.se/upload/files/2014/04/02/Summary%20of%20proposed%20policy%20on%20sex%20work.pdf" title="">the Amnesty proposal</a>, which argues that decriminalising sex work minimises the harm&nbsp;done to sex workers and allows it to be more effectively regulated.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/guardian-view-amnesty-international-call-to-legalise-sex-work-divisive-and-distracting">Continue reading...</a>ProstitutionSex tradeSocietyAmnesty InternationalWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 18:32:14 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/guardian-view-amnesty-international-call-to-legalise-sex-work-divisive-and-distractingPhotograph: /AlamySex worker in Milan, Italy. 'The suggestion that the trade be legalised but not then regulated is particularly far off beam. Since when did unregulated markets guarantee human rights?' Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: /AlamySex worker in Milan, Italy. 'The suggestion that the trade be legalised but not then regulated is particularly far off beam. Since when did unregulated markets guarantee human rights?' Photograph: AlamyEditorial2015-08-02T18:32:14ZJeremy Corbyn’s Gang of One reawakens the media of the 80shttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-gang-of-one-reawakens-media-80s
The ascent of the veteran leftwinger isn’t just a silly season phenomenon, but an authentic talking point – even around newsroom watercoolers<p>It’s been a long, long trek from aspiration to hope. Count the TV debates, the endless string of <em>Newsnight</em> interviews, the animated discussion programmes. Clip out the newspaper lead stories, the columns, the shock polls. Follow the odds as Jezza surges and Unison joins Unite. Two months gone; almost two more to go. Plus four-and-a-half-years until an election that most pundits currently predict Labour won’t win anyway. Where’s the beef? Where’s the heady mix of impending power and flamboyant personality that makes page one a natural choice day after day?</p><p>There’s something more straightforward: a feeling of editors and correspondents more than usually absorbed by a story</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-gang-of-one-reawakens-media-80s">Continue reading...</a>Jeremy CorbynLabour party leadershipLabourPoliticsNewspapersNewspapers & magazinesMediaSun, 02 Aug 2015 08:00:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/jeremy-corbyn-gang-of-one-reawakens-media-80sPhotograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the GuardianJeremy Corbyn: not just national politics, but office politics too. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The GuardianPhotograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the GuardianJeremy Corbyn: not just national politics, but office politics too. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The GuardianPeter Preston2015-08-02T08:00:11ZFamous last words? Say them now, before it’s too late | Oscar Ricketthttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/famous-last-words-oscar-wilde-pithy
None of us is Oscar Wilde, so if you would like your last words to be memorable some preparation may be in order<p>I was at a funeral recently. The woman who had died had reached her ninth decade and had been a wonderfully kind lady. In the eulogy her son remarked that she had seen her death coming; that it was the best kind of death and one that would not be available to most of us. She had prepared herself for the end and had been able to say what she needed to say to the people she loved.</p><p>Oscar Wilde's last words were: 'My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go'</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/famous-last-words-oscar-wilde-pithy">Continue reading...</a>Death and dyingOscar WildeKarl MarxLife and styleCultureSun, 02 Aug 2015 11:00:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/famous-last-words-oscar-wilde-pithyPhotograph: REX Shutterstock/REX Shutterstock‘The deathbed scene is where we impart one final piece of wisdom, settle one final score or say something so witty that our erudition will be celebrated for years to come.’ Photograph: Rex/ ShutterstockPhotograph: REX Shutterstock/REX Shutterstock‘The deathbed scene is where we impart one final piece of wisdom, settle one final score or say something so witty that our erudition will be celebrated for years to come.’ Photograph: Rex/ ShutterstockOscar Rickett2015-08-02T11:00:04ZThe Guardian view on population control: empowering women may not save the environment | Editorialhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/the-guardian-view-on-population-control-empowering-women-may-not-save-the-environment
Rich people have smaller families but consume more resources. Curbing population growth is not on its own going to help the planet<p>The United Nations has published its <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/" title="">latest projections</a> for world population. It predicts that the current 7.3bn people on the planet will reach 8.5bn in 2030, and could be 11.2bn at the end of the century. India is expected to overtake China as the most populous country.</p><p>The annually updated forecasts are fuel for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2009/sep/02/world-population-growth-resources-control" title="">a strengthening argument</a> that growing population is a critical environmental issue. The logic is simple: increasing numbers of people multiplied by higher average consumption from wood fuel to mobile phones and intensively farmed meat is a double whammy for the environment. The results are depleted raw materials and polluted soil, water and air. Greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, specifically carbon dioxide, are the common measurement of this relationship. So persuasive is the strand of thought that it has attracted backing from respected public figures such as Sir David Attenborough, Jonathon Porritt and Chris Packham. But it is flawed.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/the-guardian-view-on-population-control-empowering-women-may-not-save-the-environment">Continue reading...</a>PopulationWorld newsUnited NationsWomenLife and styleChinaAsia PacificIndiaSouth and Central AsiaSun, 02 Aug 2015 18:32:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/the-guardian-view-on-population-control-empowering-women-may-not-save-the-environmentPhotograph: Afolabi Sotunde/REUTERSChildren in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. 'It is in the very poorest countries where women have the most children, on average. And where population growth slows, generally economic growth speeds up, and carbon emissions rise faster.' Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/ReutersPhotograph: Afolabi Sotunde/REUTERSChildren in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria. 'It is in the very poorest countries where women have the most children, on average. And where population growth slows, generally economic growth speeds up, and carbon emissions rise faster.' Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/ReutersEditorial2015-08-02T18:32:00ZWhat better alternative to the Lords than an elected second chamber in Glasgow? | Kezia Dugdalehttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/house-of-lords-second-chamber-glasgow-commons
<p>The House of Lords is a democratic outrage, but the power of the Commons cannot be left unchecked. By shifting location we can start to shake up the political machine</p><p>The age of deference is well and truly dead. Previously revered institutions are no longer held in the same unquestioning respect. In every corner of society once opaque bodies have had to embrace modernisation and transparency in order to survive.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/kezia-dugdale-corbyn-win-leave-labour-carping-sidelines-years">Kezia Dugdale: Corbyn win could leave Labour 'carping on sidelines for years'</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/house-of-lords-second-chamber-glasgow-commons">Continue reading...</a>Lords reformHouse of LordsLabourScottish National party (SNP)PoliticsGlasgowScotlandUK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:00:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/house-of-lords-second-chamber-glasgow-commonsPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesPeers await the state opening of parliament. ‘Who could say in all honesty that if we were starting from scratch we would draw the current system?’ Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesPeers await the state opening of parliament. ‘Who could say in all honesty that if we were starting from scratch we would draw the current system?’ Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesKezia Dugdale2015-08-02T14:00:05ZLearning to love our bodies | Eva Wisemanhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/learning-to-love-our-bodies-image-obesity-diet-weight
<p>A young woman dies taking diet pills; girls as young as eight are dissatisfied with their bodies... How raising awareness around obesity is triggering eating disorders</p><p>I’m trying to remember how I felt about my body when I was eight. Only I can’t really remember <em>having</em>&nbsp;a&nbsp;body back then. I can remember being a chimpanzee. I&nbsp;can&nbsp;remember being a wrestler, and&nbsp;a vampire, and a sad clown, and a tree, but in none of these guises was my body anything other than an extension of my own mind. It&nbsp;wouldn’t have occurred to me to separate it from what was simply “me” – it was me like my voice was me, like the way I felt about peas was&nbsp;me. Things have changed.</p><p>The largest <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/23/basis-for-eating-disorders-found-in-children-as-young-as-eight" title="">UK study ever on eating disorders in children</a> followed 6,000 kids through their lives and found that at the age of eight 5% of girls (and 3% of boys) were dissatisfied with their body. This dissatisfaction rose as they got older&nbsp;– at 14 it had grown to swallow 32% of girls (and 16% of boys). Bearing in mind this was six years ago, I wonder how today’s eight-year-olds feel.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/learning-to-love-our-bodies-image-obesity-diet-weight">Continue reading...</a>WomenLife and styleObesitySocietyBody imageHealth & wellbeingHealthSun, 02 Aug 2015 05:00:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/learning-to-love-our-bodies-image-obesity-diet-weightPhotograph: Getty‘Do we think that to eat healthily you must diet, or feel shame when you have pudding?’: Eva Wiseman Photograph: GettyPhotograph: Getty‘Do we think that to eat healthily you must diet, or feel shame when you have pudding?’: Eva Wiseman Photograph: GettyEva Wiseman2015-08-02T05:00:06ZWhen we give up a faith, we grieve for the community we leave behind | Brandon G Withrowhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/give-up-faith-grieve-community-secular
<p>Stepping away from a faith isn’t just a belief sea change. It’s also a large loss – of culture, and sometimes family</p><p>You’ve likely heard the numbers by now. Approximately <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/">23% of Americans</a> are religiously unaffiliated (atheist, agnostic and “nothing in particular”). This demographic is expected to <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/north-america/">double by 2050</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+nones%22+unaffiliated+site%3A.edu&amp;safe=off&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=616&amp;source=lnt&amp;tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2015%2Ccd_max%3A7%2F31%2F2015&amp;tbm=#q=%22the+nones%22+unaffiliated+site:.edu&amp;safe=off&amp;tbs=qdr:y">Academia</a> and the <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/millennials-and-the-nones-why-40-years-of-religion-in-us-elections-may-change-in-2016">media</a> are obsessed with this variegated and poorly understood group and how the growing numbers will play out in American society – and with good reason. Transformation on this scale is a type of national existential crisis and, in this case, it’s entangled with the nation’s historical Puritan ideal of being God’s “<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/JackieGingrich/City-Hill-Kennedy-Reagan/2013/06/17/id/510371/">shining city on a hill</a>.”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/give-up-faith-grieve-community-secular">Continue reading...</a>ReligionCommunitiesSocietyFamilySun, 02 Aug 2015 12:00:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/give-up-faith-grieve-community-secularPhotograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty ImagesThere is a comfort inherent in being part of a united faith community.Brandon G Withrow2015-08-02T12:00:04ZRBS, why the rush to sell it off?http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/rbs-why-the-rush-to-sell-it-off
<p>George Osborne has everything in place to sell off RBS – it’s just that the taxpayer does not need to </p><p>Sir Philip Hampton said the results released by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/royalbankofscotlandgroup">Royal Bank of Scotland</a> last week were like “groundhog day”. The bank’s outgoing chairman was referring to the fact that decent growth in operating profits was wiped out by a string of charges for past misdeeds. It also feels like groundhog day for watchers of Britain’s bailed-out financial institutions: this time two years ago, the City was fixated on the possible timing of the first disposal of government shares in Lloyds Banking Group.<br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/rbs-why-the-rush-to-sell-it-off">Continue reading...</a>Royal Bank of ScotlandBusinessBankingSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:22:58 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/rbs-why-the-rush-to-sell-it-offPhotograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/APGeorge Osborne is in a hurry to sell off RBS.Observer2015-08-02T09:22:58ZLabour needs a prime minister, not a debate. It needs Andy Burnhamhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/01/neil-kinnock-labour-leader-andy-burnham
<p>The party must not settle for angry opposition. We must focus on victory and choose a leader who can win</p><p>In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes, sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance-of-payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.</p><p>We have to elect a leader capable of taking us to victory in the 2020 election and of being Labour prime minister.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/01/neil-kinnock-labour-leader-andy-burnham">Continue reading...</a>Labour party leadershipLabourPoliticsNeil KinnockAndy BurnhamUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 21:27:12 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/01/neil-kinnock-labour-leader-andy-burnhamPhotograph: Dave Thompson/Getty ImagesAndy Burnham: a vital resilience. Photograph: Dave Thompson/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Dave Thompson/Getty ImagesAndy Burnham: a vital resilience. Photograph: Dave Thompson/Getty ImagesNeil Kinnock2015-08-01T21:27:12ZGeorge Osborne should come clean over who wins or loses in his budgethttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/george-osborne-should-come-clean-over-who-wins-or-loses-in-his-budget
The chancellor seems increasingly willing to resort to ‘fiddling the figures’ – something for which he castigated Gordon Brown<p>When thousands of poor American families saw the homes they had loved and saved for seized by the banks in the depths of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, it was scant comfort that they had only been able to afford to clamber on to the property ladder in the first place because of reckless lenders, toothless regulators and short-sighted politicians. Losing your home is losing your home.</p><p>Yet when George Osborne contemplates the cuts many households will face as a result of his planned reductions in tax credits – three million will lose &pound;1,000 a year, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies – he wants to kid us, and maybe himself, that it doesn’t matter because the state could ill afford such generosity to the needy in the first place.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/george-osborne-should-come-clean-over-who-wins-or-loses-in-his-budget">Continue reading...</a>Budget 2015 (July)George OsborneEconomicsOffice for Budget ResponsibilityLiving wageBudgetInstitute for Fiscal StudiesBusinessSun, 02 Aug 2015 08:00:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/george-osborne-should-come-clean-over-who-wins-or-loses-in-his-budgetPhotograph: Graeme Robertson/ObserverWhat's in my box? George Osborne leaves Downing Street to deliver his budget ion 8 July. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the ObserverPhotograph: Graeme Robertson/ObserverWhat's in my box? George Osborne leaves Downing Street to deliver his budget ion 8 July. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the ObserverHeather Stewart2015-08-02T08:00:09Z‘If you hate the migrants in Calais, you hate yourself’ | Nick Cohenhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/why-fortress-britain-doesnt-welcome-refugees
<p>Over the centuries, we offered succour and shelter to the persecuted. Now it’s Fortress Britain</p><p>I looked at Salah Mohammed Ali and wondered how he would be remembered if he died trying to reach the shores of England tonight. It was not a fanciful speculation.</p><p>Since 1 June, 10 <a href="https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/deaths-at-the-calais-border/">refugees have died</a> on the roads around Calais, at the port or inside the Channel tunnel. Their number included an Eritrean woman hit by a car last week on Calais’s urban motorway. A few days before, a Sudanese man had tried to jump on to the Eurostar. He misjudged the distance and the train smashed his head open. Worst of all was Samir, an Eritrean baby, who lived and died within the space of an hour. Her young mother fell from a truck heading to Dover. The fall triggered a premature birth and that was Samir’s life over before it had begun.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/why-fortress-britain-doesnt-welcome-refugees">Continue reading...</a>Immigration and asylumFranceUK newsEuropeWorld newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 23:04:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/why-fortress-britain-doesnt-welcome-refugeesPhotograph: Pascal Rossignol/ReutersMigrants gaze through a fence near the Channel tunnel access. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/ReutersPhotograph: Pascal Rossignol/ReutersMigrants gaze through a fence near the Channel tunnel access. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/ReutersNick Cohen2015-08-01T23:04:05ZPolice Scotland is a lamentable shambles | Kevin McKennahttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/policing-in-scotland-shambles
The force has gone from a globally renowned beacon of efficiency to a national pantomime<p>Much still has to be done before Nicola Sturgeon realises her dream of making Scotland the most enlightened and socially just country on the planet. In normal circumstances, this would be no easy task but it’s rendered more difficult by the fact that Scotland currently possesses a police force not fit for a banana republic.</p><p>For those who have observed the diminishing of Scotland’s police force from a world-renowned beacon of brusque efficiency to its current status as a national pantomime act the last few years have been painful. Nothing, though, which had previously occurred in the shambolic reign of Stephen House, chief constable of Police Scotland, matched the tragic incompetence of his force’s performance in July.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/policing-in-scotland-shambles">Continue reading...</a>PoliceScotlandUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 23:03:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/policing-in-scotland-shamblesPhotograph: Strathclyde Police/PA Archive/Press Association ImaStephen House, chief constable of Police Scotland: 'a crass lack of judgment and arrogance'. Photograph: Strathclyde Police/PA Archive/Press Association ImaPhotograph: Strathclyde Police/PA Archive/Press Association ImaStephen House, chief constable of Police Scotland: 'a crass lack of judgment and arrogance'. Photograph: Strathclyde Police/PA Archive/Press Association ImaKevin McKenna2015-08-01T23:03:05ZLabour is really two parties. And they simply can’t stand each other | Andrew Rawnsleyhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/labour-split-corbyn-blairites
<p>So are the Conservatives. It is only the electoral system that stops them both from splitting</p><p>We were wrong, all of us. Tories, Labourites and those of us who monitor the political climate, we all thought that the major weather event of the first half of this parliament was going to be the split on the right. When David Cameron returned to Number 10, the tempest everyone prepared for was the Conservative civil war over Europe. As it turns out, the tornado has blown in from the other side of the political compass. The big story is the split on the left.</p><p>This has been a most enjoyable surprise to the Tories. After snatching a parliamentary majority very few of them thought possible before the early hours of 8 May, now the Conservatives are gifted a Labour party eating itself. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33745731" title="">The Corbyn bandwagon</a> has astonished Labour MPs, not least those who nominated the MP for Islington North only to keep the leftier activists in their constituency parties happy or to truckle for support in the parallel contest to be candidate for London mayor or because they wrongly thought he was the sacrificial candidate of the hard left whose only role was to be ritually slaughtered.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/labour-split-corbyn-blairites">Continue reading...</a>PoliticsLabourElectoral reformUK newsJeremy CorbynSat, 01 Aug 2015 23:04:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/labour-split-corbyn-blairitesPhotograph: /David LeveneJeremy Corbyn has taken many MPs by surprise. Photograph: David LevenePhotograph: /David LeveneJeremy Corbyn has taken many MPs by surprise. Photograph: David LeveneAndrew Rawnsley2015-08-01T23:04:07ZThere can be no amnesty for those who buy sex – not even if women ‘consent’ | Esohe Aghatisehttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/sex-trade-amnesty-vote
<p>As an organisation that seeks to ‘<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/who-we-are/">respect international law</a>’, why is Amnesty International ignoring the law as it relates to prostitution and sex trafficking?</p><p>This week, in Dublin, about 500 Amnesty International delegates from more than 80 countries will vote on <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/202126121/Amnesty-Prostitution-Policy-document#scribd" title="">a proposal on prostitution</a> that would recommend decriminalising both the selling and buying of sex, as well as pimping and brothel-keeping. The supposed logic is that gender equality exists to the extent that prostitution is a consensual act, but also that buying sex from women in prostitution is an important human right for some men to improve “<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/202126121/Amnesty-Prostitution-Policy-document#scribd" title="">their life enjoyment and dignity</a>”.</p><p>As somebody who has worked for several decades with prostitutes, I know exactly what “consent” means in the context of the sex trade. The vast majority of women enter it in the absence of real choices. Many are children – or were children when they first supposedly consented to it.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/sex-trade-amnesty-vote">Continue reading...</a>Sex tradeAmnesty InternationalSocietyWorld newsUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 23:09:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/02/sex-trade-amnesty-votePhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAThe vast majority of women enter the sex trade in the absence of real choicesEsohe Aghatise2015-08-01T23:09:05ZSix in hospital after river Thames boat explosionhttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/bray-lock-taplow-boat-explosion
<p>Three-year-old boy among those being treated as Thames Valley police investigate cause of explosion at Bray Lock, Taplow</p><p>Six people, including a three-year-old boy, have been taken to hospital after an explosion on a boat on the river Thames.</p><p>Thames Valley police are investigating the cause of the explosion at Bray Lock in Taplow, on the Buckinghamshire-Berkshire border, at around 12.40pm on Sunday.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/bray-lock-taplow-boat-explosion">Continue reading...</a>UK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:13:24 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/bray-lock-taplow-boat-explosionPhotograph: AlamyBray Lock, where the explosion happened on Sunday.Press Association2015-08-02T17:13:24ZBank lending to business forecast to rise in 2015http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/03/bank-lending-to-business-forecast-to-rise-in-2015
<p>Annual investment could rise by 0.25% over the year despite a dip in June – the first annual increase since the pre-crisis peak in 2008</p><p>Business lending by Britain’s banks remains on track to rise in 2015, despite falling sharply in June, according to a new forecast from the EY Item Club.</p><p>Boosting business investment is seen as an essential factor in restoring Britain’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/01/uk-productivity-growth-is-weakest-since-wwii-says-ons">shaky productivity record </a>and putting the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/28/uk-economy-gdp-growth-07">economic recovery</a> on a sustainable footing.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/03/bank-lending-to-business-forecast-to-rise-in-2015">Continue reading...</a>BankingBusinessSmall businessFinancial sectorInsurance industrySun, 02 Aug 2015 23:01:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/03/bank-lending-to-business-forecast-to-rise-in-2015Photograph: Andy Rain/EPABritish bank lending to businesses could rise in 2015, the first annual rise since 2008.Heather Stewart2015-08-02T23:01:09ZTeenagers and students advised to take new meningitis vaccinehttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/03/teenagers-first-year-students-advised-new-meningitis-vaccine
<p>Vaccine introduced in response to rapid increase in cases of aggressive group W strain</p><p>Health officials are calling on teenagers to come forward for a new vaccine against meningitis and septicaemia, particularly if they plan to go to university in September.</p><p>From Monday, GPs will be inviting all 17- and 18-year-olds to take part in the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/21/new-meningitis-vaccine-drive-will-save-thousands-of-lives">MenACWY vaccination programme</a>. They said first-year university students were particularly susceptible to meningococcal disease because they are likely to mix with a lot of new people.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/03/teenagers-first-year-students-advised-new-meningitis-vaccine">Continue reading...</a>MeningitisVaccines and immunisationStudentsHealthSocietyEducationHigher educationSun, 02 Aug 2015 23:01:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/03/teenagers-first-year-students-advised-new-meningitis-vaccinePhotograph: David Cheskin/PAThe vaccine can be obtained through GP surgeries.Kevin Rawlinson2015-08-02T23:01:10ZTwo-thirds of public against building on Britain's green belt landhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/03/uk-green-belt-land-survey-countryside-housing
<p>Survey conducted on 60th anniversary of policy to protect countryside, as land faces rising pressure from housing developments</p><p>Almost two-thirds of people think the green belt should not be built on, according to a survey conducted as protected land faces rising pressure from housing developments.</p><p>The poll on the 60th anniversary of the policy to protect land and countryside around towns and cities from development found that 64% believed existing green belt land in England should be retained and not built on while just 17% disagreed.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/03/uk-green-belt-land-survey-countryside-housing">Continue reading...</a>Planning policyHousingUK newsLocal governmentPoliticsSocietySun, 02 Aug 2015 23:01:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/03/uk-green-belt-land-survey-countryside-housingPhotograph: Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesCampaigners are calling on government to be more specific on the circumstances in which green belt boundaries can be changed.Press Association2015-08-02T23:01:11ZForeign Office drops references to its campaign to abolish death penaltyhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/03/foreign-office-drops-references-campaign-abolish-death-penality
<p>Foreign secretary Philip Hammond clashes with human rights campaigners over relabelling of ‘six global thematic priorities’</p><p>The UK Foreign Office has revised its global human rights priorities, dropping any explicit reference to its campaign to abolish the death penalty. The recalibration of the promotion of civil liberties overseas has triggered a row between campaigners and the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond.<br /></p><p>According to the department – which, like most of Whitehall, is under pressure to make savings – the change in terminology does not signal a shift in policy on capital punishment. The Foreign Office, however, has confirmed that it is in the process of relabelling its much vaunted “six global thematic priorities”, which consisted of women’s rights, torture prevention, abolition of the death penalty, freedom of expression on the internet, business and human rights, and freedom of religion or belief.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/03/foreign-office-drops-references-campaign-abolish-death-penality">Continue reading...</a>Foreign policyCapital punishmentHuman rightsLawPoliticsUK newsWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 23:01:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/03/foreign-office-drops-references-campaign-abolish-death-penalityPhotograph: Laura Lean/PAThe recalibration of the promotion of civil liberties overseas has triggered a row between campaigners and the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond.Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent2015-08-02T23:01:10ZMurder inquiry launched after woman stabbed to death in Chelseahttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/woman-stabbed-death-chelsea-london
<p>Police say 48-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of murder after woman dies at property in Stadium Street, south-west London</p><p>Police have begun a murder investigation after a woman was stabbed to death in Chelsea, south-west London, in the early hours of Sunday morning. </p><p>Officers were called at 1.20am to a property in Stadium Street close to the river Thames, where a woman was said to be suffering from stab wounds. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/woman-stabbed-death-chelsea-london">Continue reading...</a>LondonUK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:51:34 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/woman-stabbed-death-chelsea-londonPhotograph: Stephen Barnes/Demotix/CorbisPolice say they believe they know the identity of the woman who has died.Haroon Siddique2015-08-02T12:51:34ZInterest rates: economists and homeowners brace for Super Thursdayhttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/interest-rates-economists-homeowners-brace-super-thursday
<p>Bank of England to reveal key interest rate decision, discussions behind it and quarterly economic forecasts on same day for first time</p><p>Britain’s mortgage borrowers will be warned this week to brace themselves for higher interest rates on what City of London traders have dubbed “Super Thursday”.<br /></p><p>At least two, perhaps three, of the nine members of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting committee are expected to cast their votes for a rate rise.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/interest-rates-economists-homeowners-brace-super-thursday">Continue reading...</a>Interest ratesBank of EnglandBusinessEconomicsMark CarneyEconomic growth (GDP)Economic recoveryEconomic policyInflationPoliticsSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:20:47 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/interest-rates-economists-homeowners-brace-super-thursdayPhotograph: Anthony Devlin/PAThe Bank of England will reveal on Thursday their August interest rate decision; the minutes of the meeting; and their latest quarterly forecasts for economic growth and inflation.Heather Stewart2015-08-02T12:20:47Z25,000 cyclists flock to second day of Ride Londonhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/cyclists-ride-london-wiggins
<p>Riders tackle 100-mile course through London and Surrey before a professional race featuring Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish</p><p>After last year’s downpours from the tail end of hurricane Bertha, the third incarnation of what is already one of the world’s biggest mass cycling events was bathed in sunshine on Sunday, as 25,000 riders tackled a 100-mile course through London and Surrey before a professional race featuring Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2015/aug/02/ridelondon-2015-surrey-classic-live">RideLondon 2015: Surrey Classic – live!</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/cyclists-ride-london-wiggins">Continue reading...</a>CyclingSir Bradley WigginsMark CavendishSportUK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:33:59 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/cyclists-ride-london-wigginsPhotograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/GettyThe riders come through Pyrford.Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/GettyThe riders come through Pyrford.Photograph: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty ImagesPeter Walker2015-08-02T14:33:59ZPuffin numbers under threat from freak downpourshttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/puffin-population-on-farne-islands-hit-by-freak-downpours
<p>Experts blame freak storms for flooding burrows and causing 50% drop in number of fledged chicks in one of UK’s key seabird colonies</p><p>Puffin numbers on one of Britain’s most important seabird colonies may be hit by the terrible summer weather, wildlife experts have warned. Flooded burrows on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast have been blamed for a serious drop in the number of fledged puffin chicks this year.</p><p>Each year National Trust rangers monitor 100 burrows with eggs on the islands and last year found 92 birds had fledged, seen as a remarkable success. But this year only about 50 successfully fledged chicks, known as pufflings, were found in the 100 burrows checked.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/puffin-population-on-farne-islands-hit-by-freak-downpours">Continue reading...</a>NorthumberlandBirdsAnimalsWeatherEnvironmentUK newsWildlifeSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:24:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/puffin-population-on-farne-islands-hit-by-freak-downpoursPhotograph: Owen Humphreys/PAA puffin in a burrow on the Farne Islands. Only 50% of burrows have produced chicks this year, compared with 92% in 2014.Press Association2015-08-02T16:24:37ZRoyal Mail sees red over spate of post box theftshttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/royal-mail-sees-red-over-spate-of-post-box-thefts
<p>The company is planning to introduce electronic tagging and permanent marking systems in order to tackle a crime spree threatening the famous boxes</p><p>A spate of thefts targeting post boxes that have been a feature of Britain’s street corners since the 19th century have forced the postal service to fight back – with an arsenal of hi-tech tools.<br /></p><p>Royal Mail has unveiled plans to use forensic tagging to identify stolen post boxes and even electronic tracking to keep a close watch on the treasured landmarks.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/royal-mail-sees-red-over-spate-of-post-box-thefts">Continue reading...</a>CrimeRoyal MailPost OfficeUK newsBusinessSun, 02 Aug 2015 03:08:56 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/royal-mail-sees-red-over-spate-of-post-box-theftsPhotograph: David Levene/David LeveneExperts believe thieves could be after the scrap metal, contents or heritage value of the boxes.Photograph: David Levene/David LeveneExperts believe thieves could be after the scrap metal, contents or heritage value of the boxes.Agence France-Presse2015-08-02T03:08:56ZNitrous oxide campaigners take drug outside UK parliament in protest at billhttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/01/nitrous-oxide-protesters-have-a-gas-outside-uk-parliament
<p>About 100 people attend a mass inhalation against psychoactive substances bill, which would criminalise sale and supply of ‘nox’ and other drugs</p><p>A protest against the government’s proposed ban of legal highs erupted in laughter on Saturday, as dozens of demonstrators simultaneously inhaled nitrous oxide outside the Houses of Parliament.</p><p>The demonstration was in opposition to the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2015/jun/08/the-psychoactive-substances-bill-an-opportunity-or-threat-for-research">psychoactive substances bill</a>, which would criminalise the sale and supply of any mood-altering drug not specifically excluded from existing drugs legislation.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/01/nitrous-oxide-protesters-have-a-gas-outside-uk-parliament">Continue reading...</a>Nitrous oxide (laughing gas)DrugsYoung peopleSocietyUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 17:00:45 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/01/nitrous-oxide-protesters-have-a-gas-outside-uk-parliamentPhotograph: Ray Tang/REX Shutterstock/Ray Tang/REX ShutterstockDamien Gayle2015-08-01T17:00:45ZBin Laden plane crash: aircraft went down in near perfect conditionshttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/aviation-experts-bin-laden-plane-crash-cause
<p>Questions raised over why state-of-the-art jet carrying three relatives of Osama Bin Laden came down at end of long runway at Blackbushe airport</p><p>Questions have been raised over the cause of Friday’s plane crash in which three members of the Bin Laden family were killed, given the aircraft had used the runway, which is fitted with hi-tech safety features, regularly in recent months.</p><p>The Saudi-registered Embraer Phenom 300 jet, which had departed from Milan’s Malpensa airport, was attempting to land at Blackbushe airport on the Hampshire/Surrey border when it crashed on to dozens of vehicles parked at a car auction site close to the runway.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/aviation-experts-bin-laden-plane-crash-cause">Continue reading...</a>UK newsOsama bin LadenTransportAir transportPlane crashesSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:28:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/aviation-experts-bin-laden-plane-crash-causePhotograph: Robert Belcher/PAJamie Doward2015-08-02T09:28:00ZBrighton Pride parade rerouted over 'suspect package' on seafronthttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/brighton-pride-parade-rerouted-over-suspect-package-on-seafront
<p>Start of parade was delayed and explosives officers were called after object was discovered </p><p>A major gay pride event in Brighton has been rerouted following the discovery of a “suspect package”, Sussex police said on Saturday. Expert explosives officers were called to inspect the discovery on the seafront, part of which was been closed off. Police said there was no immediate risk to the public. <br /></p><p>The start of the annual Brighton and Hove Pride march was delayed while organisers and police agreed a new route avoiding the area. Explosives specialists later carried out a controlled explosion. <br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/brighton-pride-parade-rerouted-over-suspect-package-on-seafront">Continue reading...</a>UK newsLGBT rightsWorld newsBrightonSat, 01 Aug 2015 13:31:16 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/brighton-pride-parade-rerouted-over-suspect-package-on-seafrontPhotograph: Gareth Fuller/PAA bomb disposal expert prepares to carry out a controlled explosion in Brighton, Sussex, after a suspect package was found before the annual Brighton Pride parade.Press Association2015-08-01T13:31:16ZNext banks £170m in interest charges from shoppershttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/next-banks-170m-interest-charges-shoppers
<p>The huge profits made on clothing retailer’s online and Next Directory catalogue credit service were found in small print of accounts</p><p>Next, one of Britain’s biggest high street retailers, banked almost &pound;170m in interest charges last year from shoppers using its online and catalogue credit service.</p><p>The windfall highlights how the company has used the Next Directory service to become one of the biggest players in the clothing industry. However, it could also prompt accusations of double standards against its chief executive, Lord Wolfson, a Conservative peer <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/14/living-wage-campaigners-ask-tough-questions-britains-big-retailers-next">who earlier this year called the living wage “irrelevant”</a> and warned of a squeeze on household incomes since the financial crisis.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/next-banks-170m-interest-charges-shoppers">Continue reading...</a>NextBusinessBorrowing & debtRetail industryCredit card feesCredit cardsMoneyOnline shoppingConsumer affairsSun, 02 Aug 2015 11:50:43 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/next-banks-170m-interest-charges-shoppersPhotograph: Steve Parsons/PANext made pretax profits of £795m in the 12 months to January 2015.Photograph: Steve Parsons/PANext made pretax profits of £795m in the 12 months to January 2015.Graham Ruddick2015-08-02T11:50:43ZCreepy-crawly celebrity contest will highlight UK’s threatened specieshttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/02/insect-poll-highlights-uk-threatened-species
Royal Society of Biology asks Britons to choose their favourite bug to focus attention on over-use of pesticides, loss of habitat and climate change<br /><br />Vote for your favourite <a href="https://www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved/biologyweek/favourite-uk-insect-poll" title="">here</a><br />The top British insects –<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/aug/01/the-uks-favourite-creepy-crawlies" title=""> in pictures</a><br /><p>Britons are to be asked to pick their favourite creepy-crawly this weekend. A poll to select Britain’s best bug is to be launched today on Sunday by the <a href="http://www.rsb.org.uk/" title="">Royal Society of Biology</a> as part of its campaign to raise awareness of the plight of the nation’s insects. Candidates for the accolade include the seven-spot ladybird, the buff-tailed bumblebee, the stag beetle and the emperor dragonfly.</p><p>The poll is part of a campaign that is being run by the society to publicise the plight of British invertebrates which are now suffering from the impact of a triple whammy of environmental impacts: loss of habitat, over-use of pesticides and climate change.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/02/insect-poll-highlights-uk-threatened-species">Continue reading...</a>InsectsWildlifeAnimalsEnvironmentClimate changeCop 20: UN climate change conference | LimaPesticidesFarmingUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 23:05:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/02/insect-poll-highlights-uk-threatened-speciesPhotograph: FLPA/RexA buff-tailed bumblebee, one of the species likely to top the poll by the Royal Society of Biology. Photograph: FLPA/RexPhotograph: FLPA/RexA buff-tailed bumblebee, one of the species likely to top the poll by the Royal Society of Biology. Photograph: FLPA/RexRobin McKie, Observer science editor2015-08-01T23:05:07ZJeremy Corbyn pledges role for Blairites if he wins leadership contesthttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/01/jeremy-corbyn-pledges-role-blairites-shadow-cabinet
Frontrunner in Labour leadership race offers olive branch to right of party, as Neil Kinnock urges members to back Andy Burnham<p>Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to prevent a disastrous Labour split by promising to invite “great talents” from all wings of the party – including Blairites – into his shadow cabinet if he becomes leader.</p><p>His offer to involve people with sharply different views, coupled with a pledge of radical reform to make policymaking more democratic, comes as former leader Neil Kinnock throws his support behind Andy Burnham and warns that “Trotskyite” forces with “malign” intentions are trying to drag Labour to the far left under Corbyn.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/01/jeremy-corbyn-pledges-role-blairites-shadow-cabinet">Continue reading...</a>Jeremy CorbynLabourPoliticsUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 21:01:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/01/jeremy-corbyn-pledges-role-blairites-shadow-cabinetPhotograph: Andrew Fox/ObserverJeremy Corbyn at a question and answer session at Leicester University on Friday.
Photograph: Andrew Fox for the ObserverToby Helm and Daniel Boffey2015-08-01T21:01:02ZMedia coverage of terrorism ‘leads to further violence’http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/01/media-coverage-terrorism-further-violence
Clear link claimed between reports of atrocities and follow-up attacks<p>Violence, so the saying goes, begets violence. Now evidence is emerging that suggests even the reporting of violence can trigger further attacks. Research has found that sensationalist media coverage of acts of terrorism results in more such acts being committed.</p><p>The study will prompt further debate about how the international media responds to atrocities. It also raises the possibility that media reports about a terrorist act can be viewed as a “warning” that follow-on attacks will be perpetrated in the near future.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/01/media-coverage-terrorism-further-violence">Continue reading...</a>MediaUK security and counter-terrorismUK newsWorld newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 19:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/01/media-coverage-terrorism-further-violencePhotograph: /ReutersThe Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in January. Photograph: ReutersPhotograph: /ReutersThe Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in January. Photograph: ReutersJamie Doward2015-08-01T19:30:00ZCarFest resumes after stunt pilot's deathhttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/carfest-resumes-kevin-whyman-chris-evans
<p>Kevin Whyman, 35, killed in accident in Cheshire on Saturday, but festival founder Chris Evans said police advised event could continue</p><p>Chris Evans’ car festival has resumed despite the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/pilot-killed-stunt-plane-crash-air-show-chris-evans">death of a pilot</a> whose aircraft plummeted from the sky during an aerial display.</p><p>Kevin Whyman, 35, was killed in the accident, which happened at about 2pm in Oulton Park, Cheshire, on Saturday.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/carfest-resumes-kevin-whyman-chris-evans">Continue reading...</a>Air transportUK newsChris EvansSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:54:51 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/02/carfest-resumes-kevin-whyman-chris-evansPhotograph: Lynne Cameron/PAKevin Whyman, 35, was killed in an accident at CarFest in Oulton Park, Cheshire, on Saturday.Press Association2015-08-02T12:54:51ZLondon is a ‘danger zone’ for Putin’s Russian criticshttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/no-one-in-london-is-safe-from-reach-of-kremlin-says-friend-of-litvinenko
<p>An ally of Alexander Litvinenko says unsolved cases point to a culture of impunity for killers of dissidents</p><p>London has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world for critics of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, with “no one safe” from the reach of the Kremlin, according to one of Alexander Litvinenko’s closest confidants.</p><p>Yuri Felshtinsky, a historian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2007/jan/21/politics">who co-wrote the book<em> Blowing Up Russia</em> </a>with the former secret agent, said the capital had gone from being a safe haven for Russian expatriates to being dangerous for opponents of Putin.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/no-one-in-london-is-safe-from-reach-of-kremlin-says-friend-of-litvinenko">Continue reading...</a>Alexander LitvinenkoRussiaVladimir PutinUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 22:01:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/no-one-in-london-is-safe-from-reach-of-kremlin-says-friend-of-litvinenkoPhotograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersMarina Litvinenko, the widow of murdered KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, outside the high court in central London. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersPhotograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersMarina Litvinenko, the widow of murdered KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, outside the high court in central London. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersMark Townsend Home affairs editor2015-08-01T22:01:05ZGreece braces for busy day's trading as Athens stock market reopenshttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/greece-athens-stock-market-reopens
<p>Shares expected to sell off sharply when trading in Greek stocks resumes on Monday after a five-week shutdown</p><p>Greek investors expect a tumultuous day’s trading when Athens’ stock market reopens on Monday after a five-week shutdown.</p><p>The resumption of trading in Greek stocks will be the latest step back towards economic normality, after the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, struck a deal with the country’s creditors to open talks on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/25/greece-edges-closer-third-bailout-requests-imf-help">an €86bn (&pound;61bn) third bailout</a>.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/greece-athens-stock-market-reopens">Continue reading...</a>Eurozone crisisGreeceEuropeWorld newsBusinessAlexis TsiprasSyrizaBankingEconomicsEuroCurrenciesEuropean Central BankEuropean UnionEuropean monetary unionSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:06:41 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/greece-athens-stock-market-reopensPhotograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPAThe Greek stock market is set to reopen on Monday as talks continue with the country’s creditors on a new multi-billion-euro bailout.Heather Stewart2015-08-02T14:06:41ZDonald Trump backlash intensifies within GOP ahead of first 2016 debatehttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-republican-debate-rnc
<ul><li>Mogul leads NBC national poll and hints again at possible third-party run<br></li><li>Candidates fire broadsides and RNC chair defends debate participation limits</li></ul><p>Amid growing rancour among Republican presidential candidates ahead of their <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/republican-party-us-presidential-candidates-debate">crowded first debate</a> on Thursday, current frontrunner Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to consider running as an independent if he was not “treated fairly” by the party.<br /></p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/01/fox-news-donald-trump-republican-debate">All eyes on Trump as Republican debate nears, but Fox will be the real winner</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-republican-debate-rnc">Continue reading...</a>US elections 2016US politicsRepublicansDonald TrumpRand PaulChris ChristieRick SantorumMike HuckabeeJeb BushUS newsWorld newsFox NewsMediaUS televisionSun, 02 Aug 2015 19:24:44 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-republican-debate-rncPhotograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesDan Roberts in Washington and Martin Pengelly in New York2015-08-02T19:24:44ZIran uses fabricated WikiLeaks cable to smear UN rights rapporteurhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/iran-fabricated-wikileaks-cable-smear-un-rights-rapporteur
<p>State-run agencies and semi-official websites run articles in effort to discredit Ahmed Shaheed</p><p>Iran has launched a sophisticated smear campaign against <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/05/iran-rapporteur-human-rights">the UN special rapporteur</a> investigating its human rights violations by widely spreading a fabricated WikiLeaks cable purporting to show he received bribes from Saudi Arabia.</p><p>In a concerted effort aimed at discrediting Ahmed Shaheed in the eyes of the general public, Iranian state-run agencies and semi-official websites simultaneously carried articles claiming that the Saudi embassy in Kuwait had paid the UN envoy $1m to take an anti-Iran position. It dominated many Iranian front pages on Tuesday and an Iranian official later used the false information to question Shaheed’s credibility.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/iran-fabricated-wikileaks-cable-smear-un-rights-rapporteur">Continue reading...</a>IranWorld newsMiddle East and North AfricaHuman rightsLawMediaWikiLeaksSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:51:53 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/iran-fabricated-wikileaks-cable-smear-un-rights-rapporteurPhotograph: University of EssexFormer Maldives foreign minister, Ahmed Shaheed, who is the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.Photograph: University of EssexFormer Maldives foreign minister, Ahmed Shaheed, who is the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent2015-08-02T16:51:53ZSouth Sudan to compete in Rio after becoming 206th Olympic nationhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/south-sudan-compete-rio-206th-olympic-nation
<p>‘We will stand by your side,’ Olympic committee president tells African nation at emotional acceptance ceremony</p><p>South Sudan has become the Olympic movement’s 206th member, crossing the final hurdle to competing at the 2016 Rio games.<br /></p><p>Sports leaders from South Sudan and Sudan, along with International Olympic Committee executive members, were emotional as the IOC accepted the country by acclaim at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/south-sudan-compete-rio-206th-olympic-nation">Continue reading...</a>South SudanOlympic Games 2016AfricaWorld newsOlympicsSportOlympic GamesSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:11:48 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/south-sudan-compete-rio-206th-olympic-nationPhotograph: Joshua Paul/APAgence France-Presse in Kuala Lumpur2015-08-02T15:11:48ZMexican photojournalist found dead was likely tortured, activists sayhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/mexican-photojournalist-killed-ruben-espinosa-tortured
<ul><li>Ruben Espinosa was found dead along with four others in Mexico City</li><li>Photojournalist suffered severe facial injuries, says free press advocate</li></ul><p>A photojournalist <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/mexican-photojournalist-ruben-espinosa-found-dead-in-capital">who was found dead in Mexico City</a> after he fled harassment in his home state appears to have been tortured before he was shot dead, the head of a free press advocacy group said on Sunday.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/mexican-photojournalist-ruben-espinosa-found-dead-in-capital">Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa among five found dead in capital</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/mexican-photojournalist-killed-ruben-espinosa-tortured">Continue reading...</a>MexicoJournalist safetyMediaAmericasWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 19:40:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/mexican-photojournalist-killed-ruben-espinosa-torturedPhotograph: Luis Barron/APIn this June photo, Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa speaks during an interview in Mexico City.Photograph: Luis Barron/APIn this June photo, Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa speaks during an interview in Mexico City.Associated Press in Mexico City2015-08-02T19:40:06ZAnother lion was illegally killed by an American in April, Zimbabwe sayshttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/02/cecil-lion-hunting-zimbabwe-american
<p>Though Cecil the lion’s brother Jericho remains alive – despite reports to the contrary – parks officials say American illegally bow-hunted another animal</p><p>Amid an international outcry over a US hunter accused of illegally killing a well-known lion named Cecil in early July, authorities in Zimbabwe alleged that a second American killed a lion in an illegal hunt with a bow and arrow several months ago.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/01/jericho-not-dead-cecil-the-lion-zimbabwe">Cecil the lion’s brother Jericho alive and well despite rumors, say researchers</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/02/cecil-lion-hunting-zimbabwe-american">Continue reading...</a>Cecil the lionZimbabweAnimalsWildlifeAfricaEnvironmentWorld newsUS newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:56:13 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/02/cecil-lion-hunting-zimbabwe-americanPhotograph: Will Burrard-Lucas / BarcroftAnother lion was killed by an American in April, Zimbabwean authorities say.Associated Press2015-08-02T15:56:13Z'Person of interest' held in shooting death of Memphis police officerhttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/memphis-police-officer-sean-bolton-shot-dead-traffic-stop
<ul><li>Sean Bolton, 33, shot multiple times during a traffic stop</li><li>Police officers and vehicles seen at apartment complex in city<br></li></ul><p>A person of “interest” was taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer during a traffic stop in Memphis, police said on Sunday. </p><p>A Memphis police department spokeswoman, Karen Rudolph, said a person was in custody but no charges had been filed in the killing of Officer Sean Bolton, 33. She said the investigation was ongoing and did not provide further details. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/memphis-police-officer-sean-bolton-shot-dead-traffic-stop">Continue reading...</a>MemphisTennesseeUS newsWorld newsUS crimeGun crimeSun, 02 Aug 2015 19:38:55 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/memphis-police-officer-sean-bolton-shot-dead-traffic-stopPhotograph: Mark Weber/APMemphis police director Toney Armstrong, left, listens as Mayor AC Wharton, right, holds a news conference.Associated Press in Memphis2015-08-02T19:38:55ZTurkish troops killed in Kurdish militant 'suicide attack'http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/turkish-troops-killed-suicide-attack-blamed-on-pkk
<p>Two soldiers killed and dozens wounded in attack blamed on PKK, as Ankara keeps up its air campaign against rebels in northern Iraq</p><p>Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide attack blamed on Kurdish militants, as Ankara kept up its air campaign against rebel bases in northern Iraq.<br /></p><p>The attack in the Doğubayazıt district of Turkey’s eastern Ağrı province is the first time Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) militants have been accused of staging a suicide attack in the current crisis, amid an escalating cycle of violence.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/turkish-troops-killed-suicide-attack-blamed-on-pkk">Continue reading...</a>TurkeyIraqKurdsMiddle East and North AfricaWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:35:40 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/turkish-troops-killed-suicide-attack-blamed-on-pkkPhotograph: STR/AFP/Getty ImagesWreckage lies on the ground following the attack in the Doğubeyazıt district of Agri province in Turkey.Agence France-Presse in Istanbul2015-08-02T14:35:40ZCalifornia wildfire burns nearly 46,000 acres as two highways forced to closehttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/california-wildfire-lower-lake
<p>Rocky fire north of San Francisco is only 5% contained after destroying 24 homes and threatening more than 6,000 other structures, authorities say</p><p>A wildfire along northern California’s inland coastal range has now burned nearly 46,000 acres and forced the closure of two highways, officials said on Sunday, after a second blaze near the Oregon border killed a firefighter.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2015/jul/31/california-wildfires-firefighters-drought-gallery">California wildfires overwhelm drought-stricken state – in pictures</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/california-wildfire-lower-lake">Continue reading...</a>CaliforniaWildfiresNatural disasters and extreme weatherUS newsWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:42:24 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/california-wildfire-lower-lakePhotograph: Jeff Chiu/APCal Fire engineer Johnny Miller stands in front of a fire off of Morgan Valley Road near Lower Lake, California, on Friday.Agencies in Lower Lake, California2015-08-02T16:42:24ZCanada set for longest election as PM Stephen Harper focuses on economyhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/canada-national-election-stephen-harper
<ul><li>Prime minister faces career-defining battle after nine years in office<br></li><li>Opponents say Conservatives caused economic slump they want to fix</li></ul><p>The longest Canadian election campaign since the Victorian age began on Sunday morning, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the country would go to the polls 78 days from now, on 19 October.<br /></p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/canada-liberal-party-justin-trudeau-interview-election">Canada's Liberals face bleak future – is it too late for Justin Trudeau to save them?</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/canada-national-election-stephen-harper">Continue reading...</a>CanadaAmericasWorld newsAusteritySun, 02 Aug 2015 21:05:36 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/canada-national-election-stephen-harperPhotograph: Blair Gable/ReutersCanadian prime minister Stephen Harper takes part in a news conference at Rideau Hall on Sunday.John Barber in Toronto2015-08-02T21:05:36ZPro-Confederate flag rally at 'south's Mount Rushmore' draws hundredshttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/confederate-flag-protest-georgia
<p>Amid opposition to flag following Charleston shootings, protesters at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park say their celebration is about ‘southern heritage’</p><p>In a flare-up of the controversy that followed a June mass shooting in South Carolina, hundreds of protesters waving Confederate flags gathered this weekend in Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park. </p><p>The park is home to the huge Confederate Memorial Carving, a southern Mount Rushmore that features Confederate president Jefferson Davis, General Robert E Lee and General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/confederate-flag-protest-georgia">Continue reading...</a>GeorgiaAmerican civil warProtestCharleston shootingUS newsWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:58:50 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/confederate-flag-protest-georgiaPhotograph: TNS/Landov/Barcroft MediaA woman waves her flag during a pro-Confederate flag rally at Stone Mountain Park on Saturday.Associated Press2015-08-02T15:58:50ZUS and Egypt resume formal security talks amid human rights concernshttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/us-egypt-resume-formal-security-talks-human-rights-concerns
<ul><li>‘Strategic dialogue’ put on hold in 2009 in wake of Arab Spring</li><li>Obama administration boosts aid to counter Egypt’s increased terror threat</li></ul><p>Despite persistent human rights concerns, the US on Sunday resumed formal security talks with Egypt that were last held six years ago. The talks were kept on hiatus amid the political unrest that swept the country in the wake of the Arab Spring.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/egypt-postpones-verdict-al-jazeera-peter-greste-mohamed-fahmy-baher-mohamed">Egypt court further postpones verdict in al-Jazeera journalists' retrial</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/us-egypt-resume-formal-security-talks-human-rights-concerns">Continue reading...</a>John KerryEgyptWorld newsUS foreign policyObama administrationUS newsMohamed MorsiAbdel Fatah al-SisiSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:18:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/us-egypt-resume-formal-security-talks-human-rights-concernsPhotograph: POOL/ReutersAssociated Press in Cairo2015-08-02T14:18:02ZOlympic bid process to be simplified to allay fears over hosting gameshttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/olympic-games-winter-summer-beijing-oslo-stockholm-lviv-krakow
• Current two-year process overhauled in favour of three-stage submission <br />• Four cities withdrew from bidding for 2022 Winter Olympics<p>Cities considering bidding for the Olympics in the future can expect an easier and less complicated procedure after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) overhauled the two-year process.</p><p>Following the withdrawal of four of the six cities from the 2022 Winter Olympics bid process, the IOC has opted to scrap the publication of a shortlist midway through the two-year process and allow cities to submit their bid books in three parts.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/olympic-games-winter-summer-beijing-oslo-stockholm-lviv-krakow">Continue reading...</a>OlympicsWinter OlympicsSportOlympic Games 2012Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:20:59 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/olympic-games-winter-summer-beijing-oslo-stockholm-lviv-krakowPhotograph: Chinafotopress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty ImagesBeijing’s bid committee speaks to the media following the announcement that the city will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Photograph: Chinafotopress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty ImagesPhotograph: Chinafotopress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty ImagesBeijing’s bid committee speaks to the media following the announcement that the city will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Photograph: Chinafotopress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty ImagesAgencies2015-08-02T15:20:59ZItalian coastguard rescues 1,800 migrants as five found deadhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/italian-coastguard-rescues-1800-migrants
<p>Almost 2,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean so far this year, on top of 3,500 last year</p><p>About 1,800 migrants have been rescued from seven overcrowded vessels in the Mediterranean, while five corpses were found on a rubber boat carrying 212 others, according to the Italian coastguard.</p><p> The bodies were found on board at the time of the rescue, a coastguard spokeswoman said on Sunday. The cause of death was not yet known.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/italian-coastguard-rescues-1800-migrants">Continue reading...</a>MigrationWorld newsItalySun, 02 Aug 2015 14:23:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/italian-coastguard-rescues-1800-migrantsPhotograph: Jason Florio/AFP/Getty ImagesMigrants in the Mediterranean in May. About 90,000 migrant have arrived in Italy by sea so far this year, after 170,000 in 2014.Reuters in Rome2015-08-02T14:23:10ZTrump turns US politics into a (bad) reality showhttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-republican-presidential-nomination
Donald Trump may be melodramatic, crude and shameless, but he’s riding high in the polls as he launches his improbable bid for the White House. He has little chance of winning but, before the first TV debate for Republican presidential candidates this week, he’s having a dramatic impact on the race<p>There are 17 people running for the Republican presidential nomination. Ten of them will meet on 6 August in Cleveland, Ohio, for the first presidential debate of the 2016 election.</p><p>But if you’ve been following American politics over the past week, there’s really only one name that matters: Trump. In the six weeks since businessman, casino owner, reality show star and megalomaniac Donald Trump announced his intention to run for president, his name has overshadowed the “Grand Old Party” (Republican) field. Not only is Trump dominating the polls, but his readiness to say anything and attack anyone means TV producers and political journalists can’t get enough of him.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-republican-presidential-nomination">Continue reading...</a>Donald TrumpRepublicansUS politicsUS newsRick SantorumJeb BushTed CruzMike HuckabeeChris ChristieJohn McCainMarco RubioRand PaulBen CarsonRick PerrySat, 01 Aug 2015 23:04:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-republican-presidential-nominationPhotograph: Jane Barlow/PADonald Trump speaks to the media after arriving by helicopter at his Trump Turnberry golf course in Ayrshire, which is hosting the Ricoh Women's British Open on 30 July, 2015. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PAPhotograph: Jane Barlow/PADonald Trump speaks to the media after arriving by helicopter at his Trump Turnberry golf course in Ayrshire, which is hosting the Ricoh Women's British Open on 30 July, 2015. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PAMichael Cohen2015-08-01T23:04:05ZEgypt to open Suez canal expansion two years earlyhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/egypt-to-open-suez-canal-expansion-finished-in-a-third-of-projected-time
<p>The $8bn expansion, which adds an additional lane along part of the vital shipping channel, was finished in one year on orders of President Sisi<br></p><p>Egypt is this week set to inaugurate a major expansion of the Suez canal finished in a third of the originally estimated time.</p><p>The $8bn (&pound;5bn) project had been projected to take three years but on the orders of the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the former military chief who led the overthrow of an elected Islamist government in 2013, was completed after one year.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/egypt-to-open-suez-canal-expansion-finished-in-a-third-of-projected-time">Continue reading...</a>EgyptWater transportAfricaMiddle East and North AfricaWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 11:40:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/egypt-to-open-suez-canal-expansion-finished-in-a-third-of-projected-timePhotograph: Pan Chaoyue/Xinhua Press/CorbisBoats cross through the new Suez canal in Ismailia, Egypt. Officials predict a more than twofold increase in revenues for the canal, from $5.3bn to $13.2bn in 2023.Jared Malsin in Ismailia2015-08-02T11:40:04ZBurundi's de facto internal security chief killed in rocket attack on carhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/burundis-de-facto-internal-security-chief-killed-in-rocket-attack-on-car
<p>Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana, seen as regime’s No 2, assassinated week after President Nkurunziza declared election winner </p><p>A top Burundian general <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/burundis-de-facto-internal-security-chief-killed-in-rocket-attack-on-car">was assassinated on Sunday</a> when his car was hit by rockets and raked with bullets, an audacious murder that could plunge the African nation into fresh conflict.</p><p>Adolphe Nshimirimana was arguably the most powerful man in Burundi after <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32490645">president Pierre Nkurunziza</a> and had been accused of ordering brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/burundis-de-facto-internal-security-chief-killed-in-rocket-attack-on-car">Continue reading...</a>BurundiAfricaWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 10:36:38 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/burundis-de-facto-internal-security-chief-killed-in-rocket-attack-on-carPhotograph: Riccardo Gangale/APBurundi’s president, Pierre Nkurunziza. The general was a close aide to the president and was seen as the mastermind behind the crackdown on protests against the president’s pursuit of a third term in office.David Smith, Africa correspondent2015-08-02T10:36:38ZFuture Artefacts fair seeks to show physical media far from deadhttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/future-artefacts-fair-london-physical-media-far-from-dead
<p>Ben Freeman, organiser of London event, says: ‘Everyone realises the internet hasn’t killed the record industry or the publishing industry – just changed it’<br></p><p>A fair celebrating the future of physical objects in media – from books and magazines to records and cassettes – will debut in London this autumn, demonstrating that print is anything but dead.</p><p><a href="http://www.futureartefacts.com/">Future Artefacts</a> brings independent record labels together with art house publishers, indie presses and magazines to showcase how such objects have developed in the digital, pushing the boundaries of print and physical music formats. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/future-artefacts-fair-london-physical-media-far-from-dead">Continue reading...</a>MediaNewspapers & magazinesFestivalsPublishingCultureBooksMusicMusic industryArt and designSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:55:24 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/future-artefacts-fair-london-physical-media-far-from-deadPhotograph: Bo Ningen/Stolen RecordingsDetail from the hand-printed sleeve art for Koroshitai Kimochi by Bo Ningen, released on independent label Stolen Recordings.Hannah Ellis-Petersen2015-08-02T16:55:24ZTerrawatch: The lost art of specimen illustrationhttp://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/02/terrawatch-specimen-illustrations-17th-century
<p>Today scientists use sophisticated technology to catalogue treasures such as fossils. Items can be laser scanned, enabling us to view the object from any angle, without even touching the specimen. But sometimes you can’t beat an old fashioned illustration.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/02/terrawatch-specimen-illustrations-17th-century">Continue reading...</a>ScienceFossilsEnvironmentGeologyBiologySun, 02 Aug 2015 20:30:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/02/terrawatch-specimen-illustrations-17th-centuryPhotograph: Courtesy the Natural History Museum, LondonMelo aethiopica, drawn with an altered perspective.Photograph: Courtesy the Natural History Museum, LondonMelo aethiopica, drawn with an altered perspective.Kate Ravilious2015-08-02T20:30:05ZIs one minute of high-intensity exercise really enough to get fit?http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/is-one-minute-of-high-intensity-exercise-really-enough-to-get-fit
Experts now believe that, rather than spending hours on the treadmill, the smart way to condition your body is to do shorter, more intensive bursts of exercise<p>Too busy to get fit? No longer an excuse. The world of workouts is moving to ever-shorter bursts of activity. <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/for-a-7-minute-workout-download-our-new-app/" title="">The New York Times recently released</a> a seven-minute workout app based on research showing the benefit of high-intensity interval training (HIIT), while <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3168423/How-tone-30-minutes-intense-workouts-promising-burn-NINE-calories-hour.html" title="">the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse</a> found that 20 minutes of an intense workout burned an average of 15 calories per minute – twice the amount used on a long run.</p><p>Typically, HIIT involves 60 seconds of exercise near your peak ability, followed by a recovery period of the same amount, repeated for 20 minutes, three times a week. Your peak ability is around 80 to 90% of your maximum heart rate. Roughly, that involves subtracting your age from 220, but it’s more reliable to use your “rate of perceived exertion”. If six is sitting on a chair calmly and 20 is “I can’t do any more”, you should pitch yourself at no more than 18. You can do HIIT on a bike, running, swimming, on gym equipment like a cross trainer, or by sprinting up and down the stairs. So has HIIT really replaced a gentle jog around the block?</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/is-one-minute-of-high-intensity-exercise-really-enough-to-get-fit">Continue reading...</a>Health & wellbeingLife and styleSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/is-one-minute-of-high-intensity-exercise-really-enough-to-get-fitPhotograph: Wide Group/AlamyFast and furious … the way to train?Luisa Dillner2015-08-02T17:00:01ZBlood doping: what is it and has anyone died as a result of it?http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/blood-doping-what-is-it-and-has-anyone-died-as-a-result-of-it
<p>Fallout continues after revelations that at least 800 athletes have recorded suspect blood-test results</p><p>Blood doping is the use of certain techniques or substances to increase the mass of red blood cells and therefore haemoglobin in the body. This allows the body to transport more oxygen to muscles and so increase stamina and performance, making it particularly effective for endurance events. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/blood-doping-what-is-it-and-has-anyone-died-as-a-result-of-it">Continue reading...</a>Drugs in sportSportCyclingSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:43:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/aug/02/blood-doping-what-is-it-and-has-anyone-died-as-a-result-of-itPhotograph: Nick Laham/Getty ImagesEPO blood testing. EPO is a hormone released from the kidneys that acts on th bone marrow to stimulate red blood cell productionHaroon Siddique2015-08-02T15:43:37ZShaolin abbot under investigation after sex and fraud claims surface onlinehttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/shaolin-abbot-under-investigation-after-sex-and-claims-surface-online
<p>Former disciple accuses Shi Yongxin of embezzling money, holding double identities and having sexual relations with several women<br></p><p>The head of China’s most famous kung fu temple is under investigation by the country’s religious administration after online allegations by an anonymous former monk surfaced.</p><p>Shi Yongxin, the Buddhist abbot of Shaolin monastery in Henan province, has been fighting off claims over the past fortnight of multiple sexual relations and embezzlement.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/shaolin-abbot-under-investigation-after-sex-and-claims-surface-online">Continue reading...</a>ChinaAsia PacificWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:10:50 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/shaolin-abbot-under-investigation-after-sex-and-claims-surface-onlinePhotograph: Jiang Kehong/CorbisMonks performing Shaolin kung fu. The claims allege that Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Shaolin monastery in Henan province, had actually been expelled from the famous temple in the late 1980s.Fergus Ryan in Beijing2015-08-02T16:10:50ZHitchhiking robot dead as cross-country trip cut short by vandalshttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/02/hitchhiking-robot-cross-country-trip-ends
<ul><li>Beloved Hitchbot damaged beyond repair in Philadelphia<br></li><li>The kid-sized robot hitchhiked across Canada in 26 days last year</li></ul><p>A hitchhiking robot that captured the hearts of fans worldwide has met its demise.</p><p>The Canadian researchers who created Hitchbot as a social experiment said someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair early on Saturday, ending its first American tour after about two weeks. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/02/hitchhiking-robot-cross-country-trip-ends">Continue reading...</a>RobotsUS newsPhiladelphiaSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:40:33 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/02/hitchhiking-robot-cross-country-trip-endsPhotograph: Stephan Savoia/APA car drives by Hitchbot in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in July. It was immobile on its own, relying on the kindness of strangers but that ended Saturday.Photograph: Stephan Savoia/APA car drives by Hitchbot in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in July. It was immobile on its own, relying on the kindness of strangers but that ended Saturday.Associated Press in Philadelphia2015-08-02T12:40:33ZThe innovators: the personal rape alarm with a fast track to the policehttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/the-innovators-personal-rape-alarm-fast-track-police
<p>Personal Guardian device fixes to clothing and alerts police to exact location of attack via monitoring station </p><p>When a woman was raped in the apartment complex where Rebecca Pick lived, the Strathclyde University student felt scared – and angry. The victim had screamed for help but failed to attract the attention of passers-by.</p><p>“It was terrible,” says Rebecca, 22, who has recently graduated in marketing and enterprise. “I thought then that we should have some way of being certain that we can get a response.”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/the-innovators-personal-rape-alarm-fast-track-police">Continue reading...</a>EntrepreneursRapeSocietyHigher educationEducationStudentsBusinessCrimeUK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 08:00:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/the-innovators-personal-rape-alarm-fast-track-policePhotograph: Pick ProtectionThe Personal Guardian device.Photograph: Pick ProtectionThe Personal Guardian device.Shane Hickey2015-08-02T08:00:09ZDr Now: the smartphone app that puts you in touch with a GP – for a feehttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/dr-now-smartphone-app-contact-gp-fee
<p>New health apps exploit gaps in overstretched NHS by offering subscribers virtual consultation with a GP</p><p>A UK tech firm is offering video consultations with doctors via mobile phone, in a bid to repeat the success of British startup apps such as Hailo and Just Eat in which a taxi or a meal is a phone-tap away.</p><p>With the NHS under growing strain, the Liverpool-based startup, called <a href="http://www.drnow.co.uk/">Dr Now</a>, is targeting its new mobile app at tech-savvy people who do not want to wait for an appointment with a GP, as well as businesses looking to save sickness-related costs. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/dr-now-smartphone-app-contact-gp-fee">Continue reading...</a>EntrepreneursGPsSmartphonesAppsDoctorsHealthMobile phonesNHSSocietyTechnologyHealth insuranceMoneyBusinessSmall businessCare Quality Commission (CQC)Private healthcareSun, 02 Aug 2015 14:33:52 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/02/dr-now-smartphone-app-contact-gp-feePhotograph: Anthony Devlin/PAGPs are available at the touch of a smartphone button, via new apps such as Dr Now, PushDoctor or BabylonJulia Kollewe2015-08-02T14:33:52ZHow can I stop feeling that everyone’s against me? | Mariella Frostruphttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/i-feel-like-everyone-is-against-me-mariella-frostrup
<p>A woman who was abused and disfigured in her youth feels lonely and miserable. Mariella Frostrup says she needs to change her mindset</p><p><strong>The dilemma </strong><em>My childhood was a study in grief. When I was a baby I was in an accident that left me cosmetically disfigured. Then my father, an abusive alcoholic, left us. I began to be bullied – frequent physical assault, verbal and mental abuse – by kids in the area. Several of my immediate family died in quick succession. I felt unprotected, scared and alone.&nbsp;I’m in my mid-20s now and still absolutely miserable. I find it incredibly difficult to socialise effectively, and I don’t get any attention from the opposite sex. I often feel like everyone’s against me or, at the very least, that nobody’s with me.</em></p><p><strong>Mariella replies</strong> Certainly your childhood sounds pretty dreadful and you’ve clearly had to negotiate a lot of pain, but don’t let those early experiences define you in adulthood. That would be a choice, and not a good one. Sadly, a dysfunctional childhood makes you part of a pretty large group.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/i-feel-like-everyone-is-against-me-mariella-frostrup">Continue reading...</a>RelationshipsLife and styleSun, 02 Aug 2015 05:00:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/i-feel-like-everyone-is-against-me-mariella-frostrupPhotograph: Alamy‘I find it incredibly difficult to socialise effectively.’ Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: Alamy‘I find it incredibly difficult to socialise effectively.’ Photograph: AlamyMariella Frostrup2015-08-02T05:00:06ZNigel Slater’s berry and stone fruit recipeshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/nigel-slater-berry-stone-fruit-recipes
<p>Treasure the season’s crop of berries and currants. They make the perfect pudding served with toasted brioche or whipped into a summer smoothie</p><p>They won’t be here for long, the locally grown berries and the best of the currants. The white peaches, those that smell softly of roses and ripen evenly, will also soon be gone. The nectarines and apricots that ripen to a glowing intensity, the cherries that tempt us with their tight, glossy skins and dark juice… if we don’t make the most of them now, we will be left with the also-rans until next summer.</p><p>Currants – red, black and white – need a little sugar when cooked, but not much. The point of them is that familiar snap of acidity. I work on less than a tablespoon per 100g of fruit. It’s sweet enough for most uses. This week I made a warm mixture of berries and currants and tossed them with stoned cherries as a side order for slices of toast I had cooked in a thin cinnamon-freckled batter. This is not pudding really, it is more something for a Sunday morning.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/nigel-slater-berry-stone-fruit-recipes">Continue reading...</a>FruitFood & drinkLife and styleSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:00:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/nigel-slater-berry-stone-fruit-recipesPhotograph: Jonathan Lovekin/ObserverSpice it up: Nigel Slater’s cinnamon toast with three-fruit compote recipe. Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the ObserverPhotograph: Jonathan Lovekin/ObserverSpice it up: Nigel Slater’s cinnamon toast with three-fruit compote recipe. Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the ObserverNigel Slater2015-08-02T12:00:03ZPicnic recipes for work luncheshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/picnic-recipes-for-work-lunch-box
<p>The sun is out and the nearest patch of green beckons, so pack summer veg, spicy salad and toasted sourdough for your office outing</p><p>Park benches are suddenly as desirable a piece of real estate as Mayfair on the Monopoly board, with sun-starved workers reduced to fighting over patches of grass the size of a tissue. When you’re sitting in your hard-won spot, pins and needles kicking in, make sure you have something fresh-tasting and fuss-free to enjoy.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/picnic-recipes-for-work-lunch-box">Continue reading...</a>Food & drinkLife and styleSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:00:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/picnic-recipes-for-work-lunch-boxPhotograph: Guardian/Hennie HaworthA fruity Thai-inspired salad makes it worth the trip outside even if it's raining. Illustration: Guardian/Hennie HaworthPhotograph: Guardian/Hennie HaworthA fruity Thai-inspired salad makes it worth the trip outside even if it's raining. Illustration: Guardian/Hennie HaworthCaroline Craig and Sophie Missing2015-08-02T09:00:10ZDo or dye: why women daren’t go grey (unless they’re very brave or very young)http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/01/why-women-dare-not-go-grey-politics-of-hair
A woman can now aspire to lead the world … but heaven forbid she should have a bad hair day<p>Hillary Clinton was <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-600-haircut-shuts-down-elite-bergdorf-goodman-salon-new-york-city-2029338" title="">reported</a> to have closed off part of the upmarket Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman last week so she could discreetly attend an appointment in the exclusive John Barrett hair salon, where a cut and blow-dry is a snip at $600 – a figure that’s doubled if you’re after colour treatment too. At a time when personal image is a crucial part of any political campaign, the 67-year-old Democratic US presidential hopeful is clearly prepared to invest heavily in her locks – and isn’t showing any of the expected signs of grey that many of her contemporaries display.</p><p>Yet a fortnight ago, in a social media Q&amp;A session, she bemoaned the time and effort required to keep on top of her grooming. A “young professional woman” noted that she spent 30 minutes getting ready while her boyfriend zips out of the door, and asked Clinton how she handles it while “staying focused on the real work ahead”. Clinton replied: “Amen, sister – you’re preaching to the choir. It’s a daily challenge. I do the best I can – and as you may have noticed, some days are better than others!”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/01/why-women-dare-not-go-grey-politics-of-hair">Continue reading...</a>WomenWomen's hairSocietyHillary ClintonThe Duchess of CambridgeFashionWomen in politicsOlder peopleLife and stylePoliticsGenderBeautySat, 01 Aug 2015 20:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/01/why-women-dare-not-go-grey-politics-of-hairPhotograph: Michael Blann/Getty ImagesGlad to be grey – but most women in the public eye feel obliged to defy nature. Photograph: Michael Blann/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Michael Blann/Getty ImagesGlad to be grey – but most women in the public eye feel obliged to defy nature. Photograph: Michael Blann/Getty ImagesKaren Kay2015-08-01T20:00:01ZProseccos with real sparkle | David Williamshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/proseccos-with-real-sparkle-wines-david-williams
<p>All too often prosecco can leave you wishing for more flavour and depth. These three bottles will give a good champagne a run for its money</p><p><strong>Salatin Prosecco Valdobbiadene Superiore Extra Dry, Italy NV (&pound;9.99, </strong><a href="https://www.majestic.co.uk/" title=""><strong>Majestic</strong></a><strong>) </strong>Most wine merchants have mixed feelings about prosecco. Like its fellow northeastern Italian success story, pinot grigio, the soft and airy, cheaper fizz is too popular for them to ignore – it’s been outselling champagne for the past couple of years now. But if it’s a bubbling profit machine, it’s one they use with reluctance. As one supermarket buyer said to me, “too many proseccos are all front, but fade to nothing”. Drinking it is like eating sherbet: an immediate mouth-filling frothy hit with no depth or length. Even the better examples fit that description to some extent. But when they add a little more verve and floral-herbal interest, as in Salatin’s example, to me the result feels more like charming uncomplicated frivolity than air-headed emptiness.</p><p><a href="http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/index.jsp" title=""><strong>Sainsbury’s</strong></a><strong> Taste the Difference Conegliano Prosecco Superiore, Italy 2014 (&pound;10) </strong>When stories began circulating earlier this year that the tricky 2014 vintage in the Veneto might herald a shortage of prosecco this summer, the merchants I spoke to were all pretty much unanimous in seeing it as an opportunity to sell something more “interesting”. The cr&eacute;mants of French regions such as the Loire, Burgundy and Limoux in the Languedoc; Franciacorta from Lombardy in Italy; Australian and English fizz; and Spanish cava were each capable of something deeper, more complex, and, crucially, more like champagne. Prosecco is always going to suffer in any comparison with the great French region since, unlike most other sparkling wines, it’s made in a way that doesn’t even try to emulate champagne. Better, then, to judge the icing-sugar soft sweetness and creamy pear fruit of Sainsbury’s superior own-label on its own light-and-easy terms.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/proseccos-with-real-sparkle-wines-david-williams">Continue reading...</a>WineFood & drinkLife and styleSun, 02 Aug 2015 10:12:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/proseccos-with-real-sparkle-wines-david-williamsPhotograph: PRBubbling up: three very different bottles to show you prosecco’s range.Photograph: PRBubbling up: three very different bottles to show you prosecco’s range.David Williams2015-08-02T10:12:01ZHow does it feel to be a ‘grey entrepreneur’?http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/02/how-does-it-feel-to-be-a-grey-entrepreneur-tech-startup-50s
Tech startups are usually seen as a young person’s game, so founding a website in my late 50s has been something of an adventure…<p>Pulling into Old Street underground station in London I can with great accuracy predict who will head for the doors of the train. Not that clean-shaven man in the three-piece business suit; nor that Armani-ed woman who’s probably heading for a City skyscraper. No, Old Street (ironically, given the name) is a magnet for tech-oriented twentysomethings. So how does it feel to be a “grey entrepreneur” blinking in the light of Silicon Roundabout?</p><p>I’m a former magazine editor (<em>Psychologies</em>, <em>Good Housekeeping</em>,<em> In Style</em>) in my late 50s. When, a few years ago, I wanted to find a therapist to deal with some of life’s harsher blows, I realised that most directories couldn’t give me what I needed. Picking out a face from the hundreds listed was a stab in the dark. Couldn’t you take the sort of algorithm that worked for dating sites, and find the right therapist much more accurately?&nbsp;</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/02/how-does-it-feel-to-be-a-grey-entrepreneur-tech-startup-50s">Continue reading...</a>Technology startupsTechnology sectorBusinessTechnologySilicon RoundaboutSocietyInternetSun, 02 Aug 2015 08:15:08 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/02/how-does-it-feel-to-be-a-grey-entrepreneur-tech-startup-50sPhotograph: GoogleStart me up: the cafe at Campus London where tech entrepreneurs find inspiration. Photograph: GooglePhotograph: GoogleStart me up: the cafe at Campus London where tech entrepreneurs find inspiration. Photograph: GoogleLouise Chunn2015-08-02T08:15:08ZThe Third Man review – a near-perfect workhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/02/the-third-man-review-philip-french
<p>(1949, Carol Reed; StudioCanal, PG, DVD/Blu-ray)</p><p>From the moment the first audiences saw the opening image of Anton Karas’s zither filling the screen with the nerve-jangling <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ">Harry Lime Theme</a> (before, indeed, they had heard the word “zither”), they knew that with the second collaboration between director Carol Reed and author <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/grahamgreene">Graham Greene</a> they were in for something special. At its end they recognised they’d seen a near-perfect work, what we now call a noir classic. The title rapidly entered the language and took on new meanings as the careers of Greene as wartime intelligence agent and Kim Philby as cold war traitor became linked. </p><p>The story features an evil, charismatic anti-hero who fakes his own death and makes his home in a Viennese sewer, and ends with its dull, perplexed leading man being silently snubbed by the beautiful, unsmiling heroine in a deserted cemetery. This new print does full justice to Robert Krasker’s dazzling, Oscar-winning black-and-white photography and its exhilaratingly forlorn postwar Vienna, and it’s accompanied by two excellent documentaries, one about the making of the movie and its afterlife, the other about the career of Greene, then at the height of his power as both a novelist and screenwriter.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/02/the-third-man-review-philip-french">Continue reading...</a>The Third ManGraham GreeneOrson WellesDVD and video reviewsFilmCultureSun, 02 Aug 2015 07:29:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/02/the-third-man-review-philip-frenchPhotograph: taken from picture libraryOrson Welles in The Third Man: ‘dominates the film both by his presence and his absence’.Photograph: taken from picture libraryOrson Welles in The Third Man: ‘dominates the film both by his presence and his absence’.Philip French2015-08-02T07:29:07ZMaajid Nawaz: how a former Islamist became David Cameron’s anti-extremism adviserhttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/maajid-nawaz-how-a-former-islamist-became-david-camerons-anti-extremism-adviser
<p>The Essex schoolboy who clashed with skinheads, joined an Islamist group and spent four years in jail seems an unlikely government ally – and he’s not short of critics</p><p>On 10 September 2001, a young British man stepped off a plane in Egypt for a year abroad studying Arabic. When news of the most spectacular terrorist attack in history reached Maajid Nawaz the next day, he sensed it might play badly for the Islamist group of which he was part. By April 2002, he had been picked up by the security services for his membership of Hizb-ut-Tahrir – the “Party of Liberation” – and ended up spending four years in an Egyptian jail. Since returning to Britain in 2006, though, Nawaz’s career has taken an improbable turn: he has set himself up as an expert on how to prevent radicalisation, and has even advised prime ministers and presidents, including David Cameron and George W Bush.</p><p>Nawaz likes to do things in style. In 2007, after dramatically leaving Hizb-ut-Tahrir, he decided to create an anti-extremism thinktank with his friend Ed Husain, another former Islamist. A snazzy agency was hired to design a “brand identity” for <a href="http://www.quilliamfoundation.org">the Quilliam Foundation</a>, named after the man who opened England’s first mosque. The logo they chose was a delicate, wispy “Q”, a calligraphic link between east and west. They picked the British Museum as a venue for its launch party; Jemima Goldsmith was among the attendees. All the more impressive given that the whole idea was hatched in the back of a clapped-out Renault Clio that had been doubling as Nawaz’s bedroom while he finally finished his degree. It’s testament to his chutzpah, but also his ability to <a href="https://twitter.com/maajidnawaz">persuade and convince</a>, an ability that he’s been honing since he was a teenage radical, spreading Hizb-ut-Tahrir’s message.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/maajid-nawaz-how-a-former-islamist-became-david-camerons-anti-extremism-adviser">Continue reading...</a>PoliticsIslamReligionUK newsLiberal DemocratsDavid CameronSun, 02 Aug 2015 18:00:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/02/maajid-nawaz-how-a-former-islamist-became-david-camerons-anti-extremism-adviserPhotograph: Linda Nylind/GuardianMaajid Nawaz: ‘I wouldn’t blow my own trumpet’Photograph: Linda Nylind/GuardianMaajid Nawaz: ‘I wouldn’t blow my own trumpet’David Shariatmadari2015-08-02T18:00:02ZHow science is fine-tuning our elite footballershttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/science-fine-tuning-elite-footballers
<p>In February, football’s lawmakers approved the analysis of a player’s performance during live matches, via a tracking device in the shirt. So what impact will this have on a player’s health, game management – and the half-time team talk?</p><p>The Fifa <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/05/usa-womens-world-cup-champions-japan">Women’s World Cup final</a> this summer was remarkable, and not just because England came within one game of playing in it. One in 12 Americans watched at least part of the game live, making it the most watched football game in US history, while Team USA secured a record third title, thanks in no small part to their midfielder Carli Lloyd scoring a 13-minute hat-trick. The third of these saw her <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/general/eye-on-sports/25233901/watch-carli-lloyd-scores-absurd-goal-from-midfield-in-final-vs-japan">lob the Japanese goalkeeper</a> from the halfway line.</p><p>Less obvious, but possibly of more significance, were the small black gadgets about the size of an old Nokia mobile phone that the winning players were wearing between their shoulder blades. The final was the first major international match since the <a href="http://www.fifa.com/development/news/y=2015/m=3/news=introduction-of-a-quality-programme-for-electronic-performance-and-tra-2564815.html">laws of the game were changed</a> in February to allow players to wear performance-tracking devices during a match.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/science-fine-tuning-elite-footballers">Continue reading...</a>FootballSportSports scienceTechnologyFifaHealth & wellbeingFitnessSun, 02 Aug 2015 05:59:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/02/science-fine-tuning-elite-footballersPhotograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty ImagesCesc Fàbregas of Chelsea – one of many Premier League clubs looking at various technological and psychological tools to maintain peak performance. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty ImagesCesc Fàbregas of Chelsea – one of many Premier League clubs looking at various technological and psychological tools to maintain peak performance. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty ImagesNic Fleming2015-08-02T05:59:06ZThe 'granny cloud': the network of volunteers helping poorer children learnhttp://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/aug/02/sugata-mitra-school-in-the-cloud
<p>At the School in the Cloud, volunteer ‘grannies’ use Skype to help some of the world’s poorest children teach themselves. Could mainstream education learn from them?</p><p>Every week Lorraine Schneiter, a former Open University tutor, sits down in front of her computer, opens up Skype, and calls a group of children in India. And then they chat.</p><p>What about? “It depends on them. I have some suggestions up my sleeve but I always try to wait and see what they want to talk about. And then I’m always trying to make sure it’s relevant to their lives. I don’t like the idea of us zooming in from the west and trying to wave some wand over Indian children.”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/aug/02/sugata-mitra-school-in-the-cloud">Continue reading...</a>EducationTechnologySkypeSlumdog MillionaireSun, 02 Aug 2015 06:00:08 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/aug/02/sugata-mitra-school-in-the-cloudPhotograph: tedSugata Mitra with children at a hole-in-the-wall project in Delhi in 2011 Photograph: TEDPhotograph: tedSugata Mitra with children at a hole-in-the-wall project in Delhi in 2011 Photograph: TEDCarole Cadwalladr2015-08-02T06:00:08ZCelebrity lifestyles for salehttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/celebrity-lifestyles-for-sale-gwyneth-paltrow
<p>It started with Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop – now everyone from Zooey Deschanel and Reese Witherspoon to Lena Dunham is selling you their way of life</p><p>If you crave the advice of a woman just like you, except with bigger hair, newer jokes and far, far more money, then this is your time. Revel. Revel in the ever-multiplying number of celebrities who are now not just actors, not just writers, directors, models, producers, but also lifestyle brands. Walking in the perfumed footsteps of Gwyneth Paltrow – whose <a href="http://goop.com/">Goop</a> website and newsletter provided such opportunities for gleeful despair as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/30/sorry-gwyneth-paltrow-but-steaming-your-vagina-is-a-bad-idea">mugwort vaginal steaming</a> and the famed “winter detox” (“Keep your socks on in the house”) – we now have Blake Lively and Reese Witherspoon, who have both launched lifestyle brands in the past year. And in the past month <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/15/lena-dunham-to-launch-lenny-email-newsletter-for-young-women">Lena Dunham</a> and supermodel Karlie Kloss have joined them. The main thing they have in common? They need <em>you</em>.</p><p>Adopting a celebrity version of marching around the playground chanting: “Who wants to be in my gang?”, today’s stars aren’t content with creating their own lingerie line or perfume with top notes of “I’m getting to the age where Hollywood starts casting me as my boyfriend’s mother” – they want to wrestle back power one muesli recipe at a time. Where celebrities used to sell products, today they <em>are</em> the product. They are a walking advert for themselves – for the books they read, the superfoods they eat. They are a well-packaged bundle of values and advice. We trust them. If they say we’ll enjoy aerial yoga, or banana bread, or love itself, well… we’ll give it a try.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/celebrity-lifestyles-for-sale-gwyneth-paltrow">Continue reading...</a>CelebrityLife and styleBloggingNewspapers & magazinesDigital mediaMediaGwyneth PaltrowLena DunhamCultureReese WitherspoonFilmSun, 02 Aug 2015 08:00:08 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/02/celebrity-lifestyles-for-sale-gwyneth-paltrowPhotograph: PROff the shelf: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is now an e-commerce space and has more than a million subscribers.Photograph: PROff the shelf: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is now an e-commerce space and has more than a million subscribers.Eva Wiseman2015-08-02T08:00:08ZJapan's atomic bomb survivors continue in fight against nuclear weaponshttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/japan-atomic-bomb-survivors-nuclear-weapons-hiroshima-70th-anniversary
<p>As Japan prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack, survivors ponder how to continue warning of the horrors of nuclear war </p><p>It is not as if Sunao Tsuboi needs another reminder of his violent encounter, as a 20-year-old university student, with a “living hell on earth”. The facial scars he has carried for seven decades are proof enough. But, as if to remind himself of the day he became a witness to the horrors of nuclear warfare, he removes a a black-and-white photograph and points to the shaved head of a young man looking away from the lens.</p><p>“That’s me,” he says. “We were hoping we would find some sort of medical help, but there was no treatment available, and no food or water. I thought I had reached the end.”<br tabindex="-1" /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/japan-atomic-bomb-survivors-nuclear-weapons-hiroshima-70th-anniversary">Continue reading...</a>JapanAsia PacificWorld newsNuclear weaponsSecond world warSun, 02 Aug 2015 10:16:28 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/japan-atomic-bomb-survivors-nuclear-weapons-hiroshima-70th-anniversaryPhotograph: AlamySunao Tsuboi on Miyuki Bridge, where he was photographed three hours after the bombing of Hiroshima.Justin McCurry in Hiroshima2015-08-02T10:16:28ZFinancial infidelity: how to prevent money secrets from hurting a marriagehttp://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2015/aug/02/financial-infidelity-money-secrets-couples-marriage
<p>Cheating isn’t always sexual – many admit to hiding financial information from their partners, and a frank discussion may be the best way to approach the issue</p><p>If I mention “infidelity” as being the biggest cause of a marriage or relationship breakup, you’ll probably roll your eyes, nod in agreement and wonder (a) why I’m re-stating the obvious and (b) why you’re reading about it in a column in the money pages. Easy. I’m talking about the other kind of infidelity. The one that’s even tougher to spot – often because you aren’t even looking for it – and can destroy trust in a relationship in just as devastating a fashion.</p><p>And like the other kind of cheating, it’s everywhere. Survey after survey shows that it’s happening. In 2011, the National Endowment for Financial Education discovered that 31% of Americans who responded to a poll <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2011/01/13/is-your-partner-cheating-on-you-financially-31-admit-money-deception-infidelity-red-flags-money-lies/">admitted lying to their partners about their finances</a>. Perhaps it was over something as minor as concealing a small purchase; perhaps they were hiding something large, like a secret bank account, a gambling problem, or big debts. Regardless, 67% of respondents said the secrets – when revealed – led to arguments, 42% said it damaged trust, and 16% said it even led to divorce. When NEFE announced the results of a new survey 18 months ago, the percentage of those who said they had financially deceived their partners <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/financial-infidelity_n_4762387.html">rose to 33%</a> – and that’s only those who are admitting to what they did. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2015/aug/02/financial-infidelity-money-secrets-couples-marriage">Continue reading...</a>RelationshipsUS personal financeMoneyLife and styleSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:00:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2015/aug/02/financial-infidelity-money-secrets-couples-marriagePhotograph: flickrFinancial secrets can prove a hurdle to relationships. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/26023255@N03/8612002388/">Photograph: /flickr</a>Photograph: flickrFinancial secrets can prove a hurdle to relationships. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/26023255@N03/8612002388/">Photograph: /flickr</a>Photograph: flickrPhotograph: flickrSuzanne McGee2015-08-02T12:00:04ZNaked at Lunch review – the funny thing about nudismhttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/naked-at-lunch-mark-haskell-smith-review
Mark Haskell Smith’s undercover view of nudism is both thoughtful and hilarious<p>This is a book about nudists enjoying themselves, but it’s also about people finding nudists threatening. As we all know, nudism is only an erection away from open-air group sex. One minute it’s volleyball, the next it’s people heading for the sand dunes, and the fall of western civilisation. And what about hygiene? Yes, by all means factor in the benign setting of a consenting nudist-resort bakery and the reassuring porn-led trend, especially among nudists, for scrupulous pubic baldness, but frankly we all know the full range of what private parts are used for. And while we’re at it – really, have these people no dignity?</p><p>Doubtless all this is why nudism is so funny, even to those of us who have only dared walk naked up and down Oxford Street in the service of our nightmares. It’s telling that the author is scarcely three sentences into this highly entertaining work before he finds himself inescapably typing “scrotum”, long acknowledged as the most amusing word in the Oxford English Dictionary.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/naked-at-lunch-mark-haskell-smith-review">Continue reading...</a>Health, mind and bodySocietyBooksCultureHealthSun, 02 Aug 2015 06:00:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/naked-at-lunch-mark-haskell-smith-reviewPhotograph: Alamy‘Living the anti-textile dream’: a nudist beach in Australia. Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: Alamy‘Living the anti-textile dream’: a nudist beach in Australia. Photograph: AlamyPhil Hogan2015-08-02T06:00:06ZSweden invents a word for girls’ genitals equivalent to ‘willy’ for boyshttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/sweden-girls-genitals-feminist-invention-snippa-vagina
Everyone in the Scandinavian country uses the term ‘snippa’ for girls’ genitals. But few know it was a feminist invention<p>I only ever speak English to our three-year-old daughter, and my wife only speaks Swedish to her. The one exception is the word <em>snippa</em>. It’s Swedish for a girl’s genitals, the female equivalent of <em>snopp</em>, meaning “willy”, and I can’t find an English word that does the job.</p><p>Almost all the parents I know in Malm&ouml; use it. When a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1176365953&amp;feature=iv&amp;src_vid=8Wp9iNINHMc&amp;v=Qd22--XZ31c" title="">cartoon</a> of dancing children’s genitalia made by Swedish children’s television went viral earlier this year, it was called <em>Snoppen och Snippan</em>, with <em>Snippan</em> translated by the English media as Twinkle. But to me, as a foreigner living in Sweden, <em>snippa</em> just is the word you use.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/sweden-girls-genitals-feminist-invention-snippa-vagina">Continue reading...</a>GenderSwedenEuropeWorld newsChildrenSocietySat, 01 Aug 2015 20:45:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/sweden-girls-genitals-feminist-invention-snippa-vaginaPhotograph: PRSnoppen och Snippan, a TV cartoon of dancing children’s genitalia, was a massive hit on the internet.Photograph: PRSnoppen och Snippan, a TV cartoon of dancing children’s genitalia, was a massive hit on the internet.Richard Orange in Malmö2015-08-01T20:45:02ZBig Tech's big problem – its role in rising inequalityhttp://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/aug/02/big-techs-big-problem-rising-inequality
<p>More profits need to be redirected away from shareholders and reinvested in plant, process and people if technology is not to exacerbate inequality</p><p>Look around and it seems pretty obvious that technology has made daily life easier. </p><p>We can watch almost any film or listen to any song at the press of a button. People pay their bills on their mobile phones. Stressed parents get to dodge trolley tantrums by swapping the supermarket run for online shopping. And let’s not mention all that free online news.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/aug/02/big-techs-big-problem-rising-inequality">Continue reading...</a>BusinessEconomicsTechnologyEqualityTechnology sectorCorporate governanceEconomicsAppleGoogleFacebookBooksComputingCultureMediaSocial networkingSocietyInvestingFinancial sectorSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:00:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/aug/02/big-techs-big-problem-rising-inequalityPhotograph: Michaela Rehle/Reuters‘The swathe of companies using ultra-low interest rates to fund acquisitions would do better to invest in ideas and equipment.’Katie Allen2015-08-02T09:00:10ZThe Penguin Book of Russian Poetry review – the importance of rhyme and reasonhttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/penguin-book-russian-poetry-review-robert-chandler
An ambitious anthology spanning 200 years is welcome – though some of the translators need to work on their rhyming<p>This anthology is ambitious – in scope, biographical apparatus and in what it expects of its translators. Although the chronological arc is shorter than that of the granddaddy anthology, Dimitri Obolensky’s <em>The Penguin Book of Russian Verse</em> (1965), which included medieval oral poetry and a pair of important 18th-century literary writers, Lomonosov and Sumarokov, the present editors generously represent and expand – in both directions – the Pushkin era and the 20th century. There are names in the 200-year constellation sprawling between Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1818) and Marina Boroditskaya (1954-) that will be unfamiliar even to educated Russian readers.</p><p>A bigger departure from the Obolensky model, and a bigger problem for English readers, is that the current editors present only verse translations: no Russian texts, no literal prose cribs. Although Robert Chandler is the major contributor, the diversity is considerable, and there is usually more than one hand at work translating a major poet (Pushkin has no fewer than eight different translators). Relatively few of the translators are poets themselves; demanding to be read as poems in their own right, the English versifications shoulder a hefty load.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/penguin-book-russian-poetry-review-robert-chandler">Continue reading...</a>PoetryBooksCultureSun, 02 Aug 2015 10:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/penguin-book-russian-poetry-review-robert-chandlerPhotograph: /Alamy‘Offering readers a lively impression of the Byronic Pushkin’: the poet in Crimea, 1820. Photograph: AlamyPhotograph: /Alamy‘Offering readers a lively impression of the Byronic Pushkin’: the poet in Crimea, 1820. Photograph: AlamyCarol Rumens2015-08-02T10:00:01ZFloating tents, drowned festivals, rivers of mud … so are we still happy campers?http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/02/camping-floating-tents-drowned-festivals-summer-rainfall
The Observer went to south-west England, the country’s most popular camping region, to gauge the mood of those under dripping canvas in a summer of record rain<p>Ten-year-old Toby Hulse looked up from his football to consider the question. “The best thing about camping in the rain? I get to play on the iPad in the tent.” Under the eye of his parents, he thought some more. “You can listen to the rain hitting the outside of the tent and work out if you can hear any patterns.”</p><p>The Hulse family from Hampshire, together with their friends the Thompsons from Yorkshire, were enjoying a natural phenomenon that has been distressingly rare for campers this summer: the sun. In the second week of their stay at Petruth Paddocks campsite in the shadow of Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, the two families relived the downpours of the last week with a shudder. “We could hear the rain coming before it got to us,” said Toby’s father, Steve. “There was this roar coming across the fields.”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/02/camping-floating-tents-drowned-festivals-summer-rainfall">Continue reading...</a>CampingUK newsTravelWeatherWomadMusic festivalsCultureLife and styleSat, 01 Aug 2015 23:04:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/02/camping-floating-tents-drowned-festivals-summer-rainfallPhotograph: Alastair Johnstone/SWNSThe sun shines on the Hulse and Thompson families at Petruth Paddocks campsite, but 'we could hear the rain coming before it got to us'. Photograph: Alastair Johnstone/SWNSPhotograph: Alastair Johnstone/SWNSThe sun shines on the Hulse and Thompson families at Petruth Paddocks campsite, but 'we could hear the rain coming before it got to us'. Photograph: Alastair Johnstone/SWNSDan Glaister2015-08-01T23:04:06ZWhy we need to be honest about OCD and teen mental healthhttp://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/aug/02/mental-health-relapse-holly-bourne-am-i-normal-yet
<p>Sometimes young people with mental health problems get better. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they get better but then they get worse. Holly Bourne explores OCD and relapse in her new book Am I Normal Yet?</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/ng-interactive/2015/aug/02/extract-am-i-normal-yet-holly-bourne">Read the first chapter of Am I Normal Yet by Holly Bourne</a><br></li></ul><p>One in 10 young people will experience a mental health problem before the age of 15.<br /></p><p>In your adolescence years – when you’re supposed to be only worrying about exams, first kisses, and how to smuggle your parents’ stolen gin on to the Year Nine residential trip – one in 10 teens are instead fighting uncontrollable urges to repeatedly check things, or feeling petrified at the thought of leaving the house, or scratching their arms open, or starving themselves, or even contemplating taking their own lives. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/aug/02/mental-health-relapse-holly-bourne-am-i-normal-yet">Continue reading...</a>BooksChildren and teenagersCultureTeen booksMental healthHealthSocietyObsessive-compulsive disorderSun, 02 Aug 2015 08:00:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/aug/02/mental-health-relapse-holly-bourne-am-i-normal-yetPhotograph: PRHolly Bourne: One in 10 teens are instead fighting uncontrollable urges to repeatedly check things, or feeling petrified at the thought of leaving the house, or scratching their arms open, or starving themselves, or even contemplating taking their own lives.Photograph: PRHolly Bourne: One in 10 teens are instead fighting uncontrollable urges to repeatedly check things, or feeling petrified at the thought of leaving the house, or scratching their arms open, or starving themselves, or even contemplating taking their own lives.Holly Bourne2015-08-02T08:00:09ZThe 2015 Man Booker longlist – migrants, Bob Marley, but few major nameshttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/man-booker-longlist-migrants-marley-few-major-names
Sexual abuse and the lives of migrant workers are among the topics tackled on this year’s daring list<p>Right: first things first. No Franzen, no Rushdie, no Atwood. No wolves (Sarah Hall) or aliens (Michel Faber) or, for that matter, dragons (Kazuo Ishiguro). Now let’s move on: absentees preoccupy those who watch prize lists far more than those who make them, who need to silence the noise of industry hype, review coverage or previous renown. This year, the second in which the Man Booker prize has been open to American writers, the judges have certainly done that; after all, Harper Lee wasn’t on Wednesday’s longlist and a few weeks ago you’d have been forgiven for thinking no other book had ever been published (except for <em>Grey</em>, a few weeks before that).</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/26/hanya-yanagihara-i-wanted-everything-turned-up-a-little-too-high-interview-a-little-life">Hanya Yanagihara: ‘I wanted everything turned up a little too high’</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/man-booker-longlist-migrants-marley-few-major-names">Continue reading...</a>Man Booker prize 2015BooksAnne TylerMarilynne RobinsonCultureSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:00:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/man-booker-longlist-migrants-marley-few-major-namesPhotograph: Sophia Evans/ObserverHanya Yanagihara: A Little Life has left readers ‘transfixed’. Photograph: Sophia Evans for the ObserverPhotograph: Sophia Evans/ObserverHanya Yanagihara: A Little Life has left readers ‘transfixed’. Photograph: Sophia Evans for the ObserverAlex Clark2015-08-02T09:00:10Z‘I drank the water and ate the fish. We all did. The acid has damaged me permanently’http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/01/zambia-vedanta-pollution-village-copper-mine
In the villages near Africa’s biggest copper mine, you can smell and taste the pollution. As a legal battle against metals giant Vedanta/KCM reaches London, villagers in Chingola, Zambia, tell of blighted lives and a looming catastrophe<p>You can’t see the old Chingola copper mine, with its smelter and refinery, from the village of Shimulala. It’s miles away, beyond 300ft-high hills of waste tailings, the leach plant, the main pollution control dam and the 1,600ft-deep open pit that is one of Africa’s largest holes.</p><p>But you can smell and taste the pollution from the biggest copper mine in Africa. If you pump a glass of water from the borehole outside the little church in Shimulala, you will see it is bright yellow, smells of sulphur and tastes vile.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/01/zambia-vedanta-pollution-village-copper-mine">Continue reading...</a>Global developmentZambiaMiningPollutionRiversAfricaWorld newsEnvironmentSat, 01 Aug 2015 21:30:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/01/zambia-vedanta-pollution-village-copper-minePhotograph: John Vidal for the Observer/John VidalFarmer Langsu Mumbelunga in his polluted field near the Mushishima stream, Zambia. Photograph: John Vidal for the ObserverPhotograph: John Vidal for the Observer/John VidalFarmer Langsu Mumbelunga in his polluted field near the Mushishima stream, Zambia. Photograph: John Vidal for the ObserverJohn Vidal2015-08-01T21:30:03ZSports quiz of the week: Ashes, Chris Froome and Arsenal v Chelseahttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/31/sports-quiz-week-ashes-chris-froome-arsenal-chelsea
<p>This week’s quiz has been to Paris for the Tour de France, Birmingham for the Ashes, Philadelphia for the Gold Cup final and Stoke City for big transfers</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/31/sports-quiz-week-ashes-chris-froome-arsenal-chelsea">Continue reading...</a>SportFootballCyclingTour de FranceTour de France 2015Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:56:50 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/31/sports-quiz-week-ashes-chris-froome-arsenal-chelseaPhotograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesThe Ashes at Edgbaston.Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesThe Ashes at Edgbaston.Paul Campbell2015-07-31T12:56:50ZHealthy careers: how to find a job that keeps you active – live chathttp://www.theguardian.com/careers/2015/aug/02/healthy-careers-how-to-find-a-job-that-keeps-you-active-live-chat
<p>Would you like a more active job? Ask our experts how to find a career that helps you stay healthy on <strong>T</strong><strong>hursday 6 August from 1–3pm BST</strong></p><p>“While working as a courier I found I loved cycling for a living,” says Jon Day, a bicycle courier who wrote a book about his <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/01/my-life-cycle-courier-london-cyclogeography">experiences of active working</a>. “I loved the blissful exhaustion at the end of a day’s work, the dead sleep haunted only by memories of the bicycle.”</p><p>Similarly, Fabio D’Oca, a tree researcher, says he loves having a career which <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jun/25/outdoor-work-is-it-a-wonderful-life-in-pictures">helps him stay healthy</a>. “It’s quite hard to explain – but it’s a lifestyle and it’s massively appealing. You feel cleaner, you feel healthier, and you don’t feel like you’ve wasted energy.”<br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/careers/2015/aug/02/healthy-careers-how-to-find-a-job-that-keeps-you-active-live-chat">Continue reading...</a>Live Q&AGuardian CareersLive Q and ALive Q&AsWork & careersJob huntingHealth & wellbeingSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:00:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/careers/2015/aug/02/healthy-careers-how-to-find-a-job-that-keeps-you-active-live-chatPhotograph: PRResearch shows that people whose job involves activity experience less stress at work.Photograph: PRResearch shows that people whose job involves activity experience less stress at work.Charlotte Seager2015-08-02T09:00:09ZReaders recommend: songs about farming | Peter Kimptonhttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jul/30/readers-recommend-songs-about-farming
<p>Ranches of cows, horses or sheep? Fields of rice, tea or wheat? Organise your orchard and pick an agricultural crop of songs to make a mass musical harvest<br></p><p>Why Brownlee left, and where he went,<br />Is a mystery even now.<br />For if a man should have been content<br />It was him; two acres of barley,<br />One of potatoes, four bullocks,<br />A milker, a slated farmhouse.<br />He was last seen going out to plough<br />On a March morning, bright and early.<br /></p><p>By noon Brownlee was famous;<br />They had found all abandoned, with<br />The last rig unbroken, his pair of black<br />Horses, like man and wife,<br />Shifting their weight from foot to<br />Foot, and gazing into the future. </p><p>Paul Muldoon’s short, beautiful poem touches on many things – a secret life, a hint of tragedy, but as much as anything else it captures what can be double-edged about farming. We don’t know what happened to Brownlee, but from the outside the view is that he “should have been content” with his barley, potatoes, bullocks, milker and farmhouse. But all was not as it seemed, and farming - what may seem like the bountiful joy of growing, of producing and living of the land and culminating in harvest, might seem idyllic in theory, but clearly it is often not. Farming’s hard won rewards are fragile, and in the sudden, cold wind of an indifferent universe, they can all suddenly be gone, snuffed out like a life, blown away like straw in the breeze. And perhaps only Brownlee’s two black horses, in that poetic image, shifting their weight from foot to foot, and “gazing in to the future”, really know the truth.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jul/30/readers-recommend-songs-about-farming">Continue reading...</a>MusicPop and rockCountryWorld musicJazzFarmingCultureEnvironmentGMFoodScienceSoulAnimalsPoetryBooksReggaeAlex JamesFood & drinkLife and styleUrban musicDolly PartonMusicalsMusicalsFilmStageTheatreThu, 30 Jul 2015 19:00:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jul/30/readers-recommend-songs-about-farmingPhotograph: AlamyOn the count of three …Photograph: AlamyOn the count of three …Peter Kimpton2015-07-30T19:00:01ZBridget Christie webchat – post your questions nowhttp://www.theguardian.com/stage/live/2015/jul/31/bridget-christie-webchat-a-book-for-her
<p>The feminist comedian is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat at 1pm BST on Monday 3 August – post them in the comments below</p><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2015-07-31T09:56:46.897+01:00">9.56am <span class="timezone">BST</span></time> </p><p>In a world where women in comedy are still often treated as a subgenre, Bridget Christie is invaluable. Her standup sets – and her writing in this year’s A Book for Her – are angry to the point of amused bewilderment, railing against the inequalities women still have to face even after decades of feminism.</p><p>Whether it’s the bizarre procedures women do to chase youth (“Labial surgery is like pollarding a tree”) or the constant diminishing of women in advertising, Christie blends rabble-rousing campaigns with laughs, as she points out the absurdities of modern female life.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/live/2015/jul/31/bridget-christie-webchat-a-book-for-her">Continue reading...</a>Edinburgh festival 2015StageBridget ChristieBooksCultureWomenComedyComedyFri, 31 Jul 2015 08:56:46 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/stage/live/2015/jul/31/bridget-christie-webchat-a-book-for-herPhotograph: David Levene/David LeveneBridget Christie, getting ready to answer your questions.Photograph: David Levene/David LeveneBridget Christie, getting ready to answer your questions.Guardian Staff2015-07-31T08:56:46ZDo you remember the 1966 World Cup in England? If so, we want to hear from youhttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/30/1966-world-cup-england-memories-photos
<p>If you or your family members have any stories, photos, memories or memorabilia from the 1966 World Cup in England, please share them with us<br></p><ul><li>Contribute through <a href="https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/55b9ee41e4b04b785e6ef783">GuardianWitness</a> or by <a href="mailto:admin@philosophyfootball.com">emailing Amy Lawrence</a><br></li></ul><p>Where were you – or where might your parents or grandparents have been - in the summer of 1966? To paraphrase an old song, today marks 49 years of hurt. A year from now, the anniversary of England winning the World Cup will hit the half century, and a book has been commissioned by <a href="https://www.philosophyfootball.com/">Philosophy Football</a> to reflect upon that era in football.</p><p>The book, 1966 And Not All That, will feature contributions from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/oct/23/-sp-how-england-football-team-came-embody-englishness">David Goldblatt</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/28/football-money-portsmouth-simon-kuper">Simon Kuper</a>, <a href="http://www.playedinbritain.co.uk/author-simon-inglis.php">Simon Inglis</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/marcelamorayaraujo">Marcela Mora y Araujo</a> along with writers from Germany, Portugal, France, Uruguay and elsewhere exploring the significance of 1966 to their football culture since.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/30/1966-world-cup-england-memories-photos">Continue reading...</a>World CupFootballSportEnglandThu, 30 Jul 2015 11:23:13 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/30/1966-world-cup-england-memories-photosPhotograph: Keystone/Getty ImagesWere you there when Bobby Moore kissed the Jules Rimet trophy on 30 July 1966?Photograph: Keystone/Getty ImagesWere you there when Bobby Moore kissed the Jules Rimet trophy on 30 July 1966?Amy Lawrence2015-07-30T11:23:13ZAre you affected by the Calais crisis? Share your experienceshttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/30/are-you-affected-by-the-calais-crisis-share-your-experiences
<p>If you’re affected by the ongoing situation in Calais, we’d like to hear from you. Share your experiences via GuardianWitness<br></p><p>In France, Eurotunnel has said the situation at the terminal outside Calais has become unmanageable as hundreds of migrants have made<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/30/calais-migrant-crisis-many-have-died-here-but-it-will-not-stop-us"> 3,500 attempts to break into the compound</a> and on to lorries and trains bound for the UK. Many have been seriously injured in the attempt. In Kent, junctions eight to 11 on the M20 have become a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/29/how-operation-stack-is-affecting-uk-tourism">near-permanent lorry park</a>, closed to any other traffic as part of Operation Stack. <br /></p><p>We would like to hear from people who are affected by the crisis to help us document the situation. Whether you’re a lorry driver trying to reach the continent from the UK, or returning to the UK through Calais. Or a migrant surviving in a camp in Calais – or endeavouring to make the perilous journey to the UK. Perhaps you’re working alongside migrants as a medical worker or an official. You may be a holiday-maker trying to get across the channel or you live in Kent and your livelihood is being affected. You may even work for Eurotunnel or are involved in the security operation. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/30/are-you-affected-by-the-calais-crisis-share-your-experiences">Continue reading...</a>Immigration and asylumUK newsMigrationFranceEuropeWorld newsThu, 30 Jul 2015 14:43:25 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/30/are-you-affected-by-the-calais-crisis-share-your-experiencesPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesTruck drivers stand next to their vehicles on the M20 during Operation Stack on July 30, 2015 near Charing, Kent.Caroline Bannock2015-07-30T14:43:25ZI've been in the same job for 30 yearshttp://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jul/31/ive-been-in-the-same-job-for-30-years
<p>I would like a new challenge, but I’m not sure how to approach it</p><p><strong>Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/series/dearjeremy">Dear Jeremy</a> advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?</strong></p><p>I am 61 and have been in the motor trade all my life. I have been lucky enough to be in a secure job with the same company for the last 30 years.<br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jul/31/ive-been-in-the-same-job-for-30-years">Continue reading...</a>Job huntingWork & careersMoneyFri, 31 Jul 2015 06:00:16 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jul/31/ive-been-in-the-same-job-for-30-yearsPhotograph: AlamyReader has been in the motor trade all his life and wants a change.Photograph: AlamyReader has been in the motor trade all his life and wants a change.Guardian Staff2015-07-31T06:00:16ZWhat's it like living on a boat? Share your photos and experienceshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/30/whats-it-like-living-on-a-boat-share-your-photos-and-experiences
<p>Do you have leisure or residential mooring? Have you considered moving back on to land? We’d like to hear from you<br></p><p>Living on a boat is fun but has its challenges. Susan Smillie who’s been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/29/ten-years-living-on-a-boat-its-a-fun-life-im-not-a-watery-hobo">living on her ketch in London for the last ten years</a> says, “The best description I can give is that it’s like being on holiday – all the time.” Though often difficult to find a residential mooring in cities like London, there’s been an increase in people turning to boats due to growing house prices. Do you live on a boat? If so, we’d love to hear from you.<br /></p><p>What do you enjoy most about being out on the water? What advice would you give to people who are thinking of switching to the liveaboard lifestyle? Share your photos, videos and experiences with us.<br /></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/30/whats-it-like-living-on-a-boat-share-your-photos-and-experiences">Continue reading...</a>HomesLife and styleThu, 30 Jul 2015 10:22:08 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/30/whats-it-like-living-on-a-boat-share-your-photos-and-experiencesPhotograph: Andy Hall for the ObserverSusan Smiley has been living on a boat for 10 years. South dock marina, Deptford, LondonRachel Obordo2015-07-30T10:22:08ZWhy is Spain not interested in boxing?http://www.theguardian.com/sport/the-balls-of-wrath/2015/jul/30/spain-not-interested-boxing-football-marco-mccullough-kiko-martinez
<p>Spain is obsessed with sport, with their most popular newspaper regularly devoting 30 pages a day to Real Madrid and Barcelona, but when and why did the country decide that it could happily live without the world of boxing?</p><p>By <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/paul-gibson">Paul Gibson</a> for <a href="http://theballsofwrath.com/">The Balls of Wrath</a>, part of the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/series/guardian-sport-network">Guardian Sport Network</a></p><p>On 13 July, the Barry McGuigan-managed featherweight, Marco McCullough, received a call at home in Belfast. Check your passport, he was told, you have a fight in Madrid’s Hip&oacute;dromo de Zarzuela on the 24th. It was short notice and away from home, but Marco didn’t care. He’d been itching to get back in the ring and would have willingly travelled to Outer Mongolia if required.</p><p>On the following day the venue was changed to a sports centre in a northern suburb of Madrid. On the 16th it was moved down the road to the Jardines de Araceli. On the 19th it settled on the Palacio de Vistalegre in south Madrid. Then on the 21st, just two days before the weigh in and with Marco’s family and friends already packing for a weekend in the Spanish capital, the entire bill was unceremoniously cancelled. No official reason was given but, this being Spain, financial mismanagement was the likely culprit.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/the-balls-of-wrath/2015/jul/30/spain-not-interested-boxing-football-marco-mccullough-kiko-martinez">Continue reading...</a>BoxingSportThu, 30 Jul 2015 08:55:29 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/the-balls-of-wrath/2015/jul/30/spain-not-interested-boxing-football-marco-mccullough-kiko-martinezPhotograph: Carl Recine/ReutersKiko Martínez fought against Scott Quigg for a world title earlier this month but his efforts have never attracted much attention from sports fans in his native Spain.Photograph: Carl Recine/ReutersKiko Martínez fought against Scott Quigg for a world title earlier this month but his efforts have never attracted much attention from sports fans in his native Spain.Paul Gibson2015-07-30T08:55:29ZAre you a 'bogus' Labour leadership voter?http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/29/are-you-a-bogus-labour-leadership-voter
<p>Controversy has surrounded the Labour leadership election, with some raising questions as to whether the process should be open to ‘registered supporters’ paying £3 online. Are you one of them? And do you feel welcome?</p><p>Excitement around Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy has inspired thousands of voters to sign up as a Labour supporter in order to vote in August’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/labourleadership">Labour leadership election</a>. </p><p>More than 20,000 new full members have joined the party since the leadership nominations closed, and interim Labour leader Harriet Harman has said “<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/28/harriet-harman-we-are-weeding-out-bogus-labour-leadership-voters">rigorous due diligence</a>” is being undertaken to ensure only genuine supporters will get a vote, after <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/26/jeremy-corbyn-genuine-labour-supporters-leadership-election">the party was hit</a> with claims that the process is open to manipulation by bogus applicants.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/29/are-you-a-bogus-labour-leadership-voter">Continue reading...</a>Labour party leadershipLabourPoliticsUK newsJeremy CorbynAndy BurnhamLiz KendallYvette CooperWed, 29 Jul 2015 15:11:45 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/29/are-you-a-bogus-labour-leadership-voterPhotograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesLiz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn take part in hustings at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow, Scotland.Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesLiz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn take part in hustings at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow, Scotland.James Walsh2015-07-29T15:11:45ZWhat do you think about online privacy? Share your viewshttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/29/what-do-you-think-about-online-privacy-share-your-views
<p>We’d like to hear your views on online privacy. Share your perspectives with GuardianWitness<br></p><p>Over the past few decades, we have seen enormous changes in how we think about privacy. The emergence of social networks, rise of smartphones, development of cloud computing and growth of location tracking have all affected, in one way or another, how we draw the line between what is private and what is public. </p><p> But what exactly is privacy? The lawyers Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis defined it in 1890 as the “right to be let alone”. What does the word mean in today’s world? With the imminent expansion of the internet of things, a number of recent high-profile hacks, and with an increasing amount of apps and services needing personal data to function properly, how do we picture our privacy? Do we care about it?</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/29/what-do-you-think-about-online-privacy-share-your-views">Continue reading...</a>TechnologyInternetPrivacy & the mediaWed, 29 Jul 2015 11:51:15 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/29/what-do-you-think-about-online-privacy-share-your-viewsPhotograph: Tony Tallec/AlamyWhat does online privacy look like in the 21st century?Photograph: Tony Tallec/AlamyWhat does online privacy look like in the 21st century?Photograph: Tony Tallec / Alamy/AlamyPhotograph: Tony Tallec / Alamy/AlamyGuardian readers2015-07-29T11:51:15ZFrom Thimphu to Prague, your favourite city views – in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/cities/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2015/jul/29/thimphu-prague-your-favourite-city-views-pictures
<p>As cities rapidly develop, historical vistas can be protected or lost, while new ones are created. Readers shared their favourite urban views around the world</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2015/jul/29/thimphu-prague-your-favourite-city-views-pictures">Continue reading...</a>CitiesPhotographyHeritageHeritageTravelCultureArt and designWed, 29 Jul 2015 13:11:50 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/cities/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2015/jul/29/thimphu-prague-your-favourite-city-views-picturesPhotograph: Onlyest/GuardianWitnessFrancesca Perry and Guardian readers2015-07-29T13:11:50ZIf you had a cricket time machine, which players would you go back to watch?http://www.theguardian.com/sport/99-94-cricket-blog/2015/jul/29/cricket-time-machine
<p>If you had a time machine that was to be used solely for the purpose of watching cricket matches, which players would you want to see in the flesh?</p><p>By <a href="https://twitter.com/garynaylor999">Gary Naylor</a> for the <a href="https://nestaquin.wordpress.com/">99.94 Cricket Blog</a>, part of the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/series/guardian-sport-network">Guardian Sport Network</a></p><p>What if those <a href="http://www.famousauthors.org/famous-authors/marcel-proust.jpg">temps were suddenly not perdus</a>? What if you had your own <a href="http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/files/2015/01/rodtaylor5.jpg">Time Machine</a> and chose not to fast forward to the time of the <a href="http://postflaviana.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tm_morlocksphinx-2.jpg">Morlocks and the Eloi</a> but went back to see some cricket. What would you dial up and who would you watch? I found myself contemplating that very question and came up with these men.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/99-94-cricket-blog/2015/jul/29/cricket-time-machine">Continue reading...</a>CricketSportShane WarneWed, 29 Jul 2015 12:03:34 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/99-94-cricket-blog/2015/jul/29/cricket-time-machinePhotograph: Popperfoto/Getty ImagesThe England team that regained the Ashes in 1912, featuring SF Barnes.Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty ImagesThe England team that regained the Ashes in 1912, featuring SF Barnes.Gary Naylor2015-07-29T12:03:34ZCilla Black – a life in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-life-in-pictures
<p>Singer and TV presenter, who has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-dies-aged-72">died in Spain aged 72</a>, was a familiar face on TV and in the pop charts throughout the 1960s and 70s</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-life-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Cilla BlackMusicTelevisionCultureTelevision & radioUK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:56:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2015/aug/02/cilla-black-life-in-picturesPhotograph: ITVPhotograph: ITVGuardian Staff2015-08-02T12:56:37ZCecil the lion joins endangered species on Empire State Buildinghttp://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/aug/02/cecil-the-lion-endangered-species-empire-state-building
<p>On Saturday, documentary film-makers projected a loop of images of endangered animals on to the side of one of New York City’s most famous landmarks</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/01/jericho-not-dead-cecil-the-lion-zimbabwe">Jericho the lion, Cecil’s brother, is alive, authorities confirm</a><br></li></ul> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/aug/02/cecil-the-lion-endangered-species-empire-state-building">Continue reading...</a>AnimalsWildlifeConservationEnvironmentUS newsNew YorkWorld newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 12:57:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/aug/02/cecil-the-lion-endangered-species-empire-state-buildingPhotograph: Gary Hershorn/CorbisAgencies in New York2015-08-02T12:57:37ZIran nuclear deal makes Middle East safer, says John Kerry - videohttp://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/02/iran-nuclear-deal-middle-east-john-kerry-egypt-video
Speaking in Cairo, US secretary of state John Kerry says last month's nuclear deal with Iran will bring greater peace and security to the Middle East. Despite persistent human rights concerns, the US on Sunday resumed formal security talks with Egypt that were last held six years ago. Speaking alongside Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, Kerry says Egypt and the wider region is safer following the deal which scales back Iran's nuclear programme <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/02/iran-nuclear-deal-middle-east-john-kerry-egypt-video">Continue reading...</a>EgyptUS newsJohn KerryNuclear weaponsIranSun, 02 Aug 2015 15:25:49 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/02/iran-nuclear-deal-middle-east-john-kerry-egypt-videoguardian.co.uk140x84 trailpic for John KerryGuardian Staff2015-08-02T15:25:49ZPoliticians on public transport – in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/aug/01/politicians-on-public-transport-in-pictures
<p>A photo of Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn looking almost unbearably sad on the night bus has got people talking online – but he’s not the first serving MP to mix with the riff-raff</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/01/fan-catches-jeremy-corbyn-looking-gloomy-on-night-bus">Fan catches Jeremy Corbyn looking gloomy on night bus</a> <br></li></ul> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/aug/01/politicians-on-public-transport-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>PoliticsTfLLondonTony BlairBoris JohnsonJeremy CorbynNick CleggEd MilibandKen LivingstoneUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 18:30:30 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/aug/01/politicians-on-public-transport-in-picturesPhotograph: Stuart Low/Stuart LowPhotograph: Stuart Low/Stuart LowGuardian staff2015-08-01T18:30:30ZThe weekend in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/aug/02/the-weekend-in-pictures
<p>A selection of the best pictures from around the world this weekend including fires in California and hen racing in Bonsall</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/aug/02/the-weekend-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:41:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2015/aug/02/the-weekend-in-picturesPhotograph: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty ImagesGuardian Staff2015-08-02T16:41:01ZSport picture of the day: Ironman in the spotlighthttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2015/aug/02/sport-picture-of-the-day-ironman-maastricht-limburg-triathlon
<p>The triathletes tackle the cycle leg of the Ironman Maastricht-Limburg in the Netherlands</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2015/aug/02/sport-picture-of-the-day-ironman-maastricht-limburg-triathlon">Continue reading...</a>TriathlonAthleticsSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 13:53:47 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2015/aug/02/sport-picture-of-the-day-ironman-maastricht-limburg-triathlonPhotograph: Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images for IronmanDaffydd Bynon2015-08-02T13:53:47ZBrighton Pride's 25th anniversary parade - in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/aug/01/brighton-prides-25th-anniversary-parade-in-pictures
<p>Not even <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/01/brighton-pride-parade-rerouted-over-suspect-package-on-seafront">a bomb scare</a> could stop 160,000 people taking to the sunny streets of Brighton to celebrate all things LGBT in the city’s 25th annual Pride parade<br></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/aug/01/brighton-prides-25th-anniversary-parade-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>LGBT rightsBrightonPhotographyUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 22:50:20 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/aug/01/brighton-prides-25th-anniversary-parade-in-picturesPhotograph: Tabatha Fireman/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Tabatha Fireman/Getty ImagesGuardian Staff2015-08-01T22:50:20ZThe UK's favourite creepy-crawlieshttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/aug/01/the-uks-favourite-creepy-crawlies
<p>Poll to find the nation’s best-loved insect is designed to focus attention on the dangers posed by over-use of pesticides, loss of habitat and climate change. <br><a href="https://www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved/biologyweek/favourite-uk-insect-poll">Vote for your favourite</a></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/aug/01/the-uks-favourite-creepy-crawlies">Continue reading...</a>InsectsWildlifeAnimalsEnvironmentUK newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 11:59:26 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/aug/01/the-uks-favourite-creepy-crawliesPhotograph: Drew Buckley/REX ShutterstockPhotograph: Drew Buckley/REX ShutterstockRobin McKie2015-08-01T11:59:26ZThe Queen's People, portraits by Hugo Rittson Thomas – in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/aug/02/the-queens-people-portraits-by-hugo-rittson-thomas-in-pictures
<p>The Queen’s People, an exhibition of<em></em> photographs of members of the royal household and support staff in their traditional uniforms, will open in London later this month.<br></p><p>Inspired by formal 17th century portrait painting, in which a black background would emphasise the craftsmanship and colour of ceremonial dress, the photographs use a unique, contemporary mirroring device to show each individual from all four sides </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/aug/02/the-queens-people-portraits-by-hugo-rittson-thomas-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>The QueenMonarchyUK newsSun, 02 Aug 2015 10:49:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2015/aug/02/the-queens-people-portraits-by-hugo-rittson-thomas-in-picturesPhotograph: Hugo Rittson Thomas/Royal Household/EPAPhotograph: Hugo Rittson Thomas/Royal Household/EPAGuardian Staff2015-08-02T10:49:07ZReaders' photos on the theme of runhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2015/aug/01/readers-photos-on-the-theme-of-run
<p>For last week’s photography assignment in the Observer New Review we asked you to share your photos on the <a href="https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/55b0f634e4b02ab2dca28ece">theme of run</a> via GuardianWitness. Here’s a selection of our favourites. You can also share your photos on this week’s theme on ‘trace’ by clicking the button below</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2015/aug/01/readers-photos-on-the-theme-of-run">Continue reading...</a>PhotographyArt and designCultureSat, 01 Aug 2015 21:30:03 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/guardianwitness-blog/gallery/2015/aug/01/readers-photos-on-the-theme-of-runPhotograph: yoricksskull/GuardianWitnessGuardian readers2015-08-01T21:30:03ZCreepy crochets – in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/aug/01/creepy-crochets-in-pictures
<p><a href="http://caitlintmccormack.com/home.html">Caitlin McCormack</a>’s grandfather was a skilled bird-carver and her grandmother a talented crocheter. “The works are kind of a synthesis of their very separate creations,” says the 27-year-old artist, who is based in Philadelphia. She creates “relics with undisclosed histories” by gathering materials such as lace from yard sales, and crafting them into creatures indigenous to the east coast – squirrels, foxes, finches and bats. The results are eerie, embryonic skeletons, delicate and macabre. McCormack’s concern is “the continuous circulation of a memory until it has become warped nearly beyond recognition”. Through applying glue she produces material that is structurally similar to delicate bone tissue, with a jaundiced ivory hue. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/aug/01/creepy-crochets-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>ArtArt and designCulturePhotographySat, 01 Aug 2015 16:00:05 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/aug/01/creepy-crochets-in-picturesPhotograph: Caitlin McCormackPhotograph: Caitlin McCormackPeter Yeung2015-08-01T16:00:05ZSport picture of the day: high diving in Hrimezdicehttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2015/aug/01/sport-picture-of-the-day-high-diving-in-hrimezdice
<p>Hrimezdice in the Czech Republic is 2,815 km from Kazan in Russia and the unofficial Czech outdoor free style jump diving championship is a million miles away from the glamour of the FINA World Championships but it sure looks a lot more fun</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2015/aug/01/sport-picture-of-the-day-high-diving-in-hrimezdice">Continue reading...</a>DivingSportPhotographySat, 01 Aug 2015 20:51:16 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2015/aug/01/sport-picture-of-the-day-high-diving-in-hrimezdicePhotograph: Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty ImagesSteven Bloor2015-08-01T20:51:16ZMeet comedian Amy Schumer, the sneaky feminist honesty bombhttp://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/02/amy-schumer-interview-trainwreck-judd-apatow
<p>She’s been showered with awards, has millions of views on YouTube and ‘blew away’ Trainwreck director Judd Apatow. Is Amy Schumer the funniest woman on the planet?</p><p>There are two bottles of mineral water in Amy Schumer’s hotel suite and no glasses. She takes sparkling, I have the still, and I offer to find something to drink out of. “Naaah, let’s drink it out of the bottle,” Schumer, the 34-year-old American comedian and actor, suggests. She slumps on the sofa, tucks her feet underneath her and takes a thirsty swig. She’s just come from doing photographs and is wearing an expensive-looking peach cocktail dress; her hair and nails are done. The effect is incongruous: she looks like a girl whose prom date has stood her up.</p><p>Nice dress, I say – mainly because that kind of clothing and conspicuous effort demand acknowledgement. It turns out to be not Schumer’s choice and certainly not her taste. “Does this look hilarious, this orange thing?” she asks. “I feel like the exact opposite of this outfit and nail polish. I feel no connection to how I look visually right now.”</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/02/amy-schumer-interview-trainwreck-judd-apatow">Continue reading...</a>TrainwreckComedyAmy SchumerTina FeyTelevisionTelevision & radioComedyComedyComedy CentralTelevision industryComedyFilmCultureStageMediaUS television industrySun, 02 Aug 2015 09:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/02/amy-schumer-interview-trainwreck-judd-apatowPhotograph: Pal Hansen/ObserverAmy Schumer photographed at the Soho hotel in London. Photograph: Pal Hansen for the ObserverPhotograph: Pal Hansen/ObserverAmy Schumer photographed at the Soho hotel in London. Photograph: Pal Hansen for the ObserverTim Lewis2015-08-02T09:30:00Z‘Mark Thompson told me: whatever you do, don’t mess up Top Gear’http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/top-gear-jane-tranter-bbc-doctor-who
As Jane Tranter prepares to head her own UK production company, she talks about Doctor Who, her fears for the BBC – and why Wales is like New York<p>Jane Tranter’s first job as head of production for the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, was to sell Top Gear to the US.</p><p>So it seems appropriate that on the day we speak, as she prepares to return from Los Angeles to the UK to start her own production company, that Top Gear, or rather Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/30/top-gear-clarkson-hammond-may-amazon-deal-bbc" title="">dominating the headlines</a> once again.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/top-gear-jane-tranter-bbc-doctor-who">Continue reading...</a>Jane TranterMediaBBCTop GearTelevisionFactual TVDoctor WhoCultureTelevision & radioFantasyIndependent production companiesTelevision industryUK newsBBC WorldwideSun, 02 Aug 2015 17:06:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/top-gear-jane-tranter-bbc-doctor-whoPhotograph: /PRJane Tranter, left, will be based in south Wales while her partner in the independent production company Bad Wolf, Julie Gardner, will remain in Los Angeles.Photograph: /PRJane Tranter, left, will be based in south Wales while her partner in the independent production company Bad Wolf, Julie Gardner, will remain in Los Angeles.John Plunkett2015-08-02T17:06:01ZBuffy Sainte-Marie: ‘My music is much more diverse than almost any singer you can think of’http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/02/buffy-sainte-marie-tour-sesame-street-morrissey-interview
<p>The folk singer and activist on touring with Morrissey, her CIA files and her unique appeal after 50 years in folk</p><p><strong>More than 50 years after your first album, you are back with a new one, <em>Power in the Blood</em>. Morrissey asked you to tour with him this year and you’re getting great reviews. How do you explain your longevity?</strong><br />I didn’t get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound. And in the 1960s there was an open window into what people call the music business. It’s really been a lot of luck. Actually, when I first got famous in the 60s, I&nbsp;got a little too famous and in order to escape showbusiness I moved to Hawaii. I’ve always had that attitude about my career: it’s something that I&nbsp;do but it’s not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I’ve got a lot of chickens, I’ve got a horse, I’ve got a kitty-cat, I’ve got a lot of goats, I’ve got animals all over the place.</p><p><strong>You were part of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, with Bob Dylan, </strong><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/31/joan-baez-singer-activist-peacenik-lover-legend-royal-festival-hall" title=""><strong>Joan Baez</strong></a><strong> and many others. Where did you fit in to that scene?</strong><br />I kind of didn’t fit in, in a way, but that was a time when misfits could have a career. I didn’t really sing folk songs like Joan Baez and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/28/pete-seeger" title="">Pete Seeger</a>, and I didn’t come from a business family like Bob Dylan, or a music family like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70-1b9SCj0" title="">Judy Collins</a>. But where I fitted in, I&nbsp;think, was that I didn’t think I’d last, so it’s not as though I was risking anything. And I think it was because of my uniqueness.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/02/buffy-sainte-marie-tour-sesame-street-morrissey-interview">Continue reading...</a>Folk musicMorrisseySesame StreetRichard NixonBob DylanNative AmericansSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:45:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/02/buffy-sainte-marie-tour-sesame-street-morrissey-interviewPhotograph: Colin McConnell/Toronto Star‘I have truly loved every year of my life.’ Photograph: Colin McConnell/Toronto StarPhotograph: Colin McConnell/Toronto Star‘I have truly loved every year of my life.’ Photograph: Colin McConnell/Toronto StarTim Lewis2015-08-02T09:45:01ZOn my radar: writer Hanif Kureishi’s cultural highlightshttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/on-my-radar-hanif-kureishi-cultural-highlights
The Buddha of Suburbia author on Hitchcock’s gift for causing his audiences anxiety, a Japanese erotic masterpiece and his local Café Rouge<p>Hanif Kureishi, CBE, was born in Bromley, south London, in 1954 to British-Pakistani parents, and studied philosophy at King’s College London. In the 1970s, he wrote pornography under various pseudonyms, before turning to playwriting for Hampstead theatre and the Royal Court. In 1985, he wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/30/my-beautiful-laundrette-best-british"><em>My Beautiful Laundrette</em></a>, directed by Stephen Frears. In 1990 he published the semi-autobiographical <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/04/the-buddha-of-suburbia"><em>The Buddha of Suburbia</em></a>, which won the Whitbread best first novel prize; he adapted it for TV in 1993. A collection of short fiction and essays <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/09/love-and-hate-hanif-kureishi-essays-short-stories-review"><em>Love + Hate</em></a>, is out now from Faber &amp; Faber.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/on-my-radar-hanif-kureishi-cultural-highlights">Continue reading...</a>Hanif KureishiSigmund FreudYoung VicAlfred HitchcockKeith JarrettFictionStageFilmJazzMusicBooksCultureSun, 02 Aug 2015 08:45:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/on-my-radar-hanif-kureishi-cultural-highlightsPhotograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesHanif Kureishi: 'By 5pm I need to get out and away from the horror of my own imagination.' Photograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesPhotograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesHanif Kureishi: 'By 5pm I need to get out and away from the horror of my own imagination.' Photograph: David Levenson/Getty ImagesLisa O'Kelly2015-08-02T08:45:09ZPeter Jones obituaryhttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/peter-jones
Music journalist and author who wrote the earliest biographies of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones<p>During the late 1950s and early 60s the weekly music press was the main source of news and information about the latest developments in British and American pop music. Of the several papers in the marketplace, Record Mirror was most often the first to spot new trends, including the Motown sound and rhythm &amp; blues. Its chief writer and editor for much of this era was Peter Jones, who has died aged 85. As well as his articles, Jones wrote the earliest book-length biographies of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.</p><p>Always immaculately dressed, Jones evolved a working routine at Record Mirror centred on a lengthy lunchtime spent at the bar of the De Hems pub off Shaftesbury Avenue in London. There, according to his friend and colleague Norman Jopling, when music business contacts came to meet him “he was genial, good company, and, importantly, an easy touch for those precious column inches”. Frequently interviews with artists would take place at De Hems, with Peter taking notes in shorthand. He would compose articles and pithy record reviews on a typewriter that had two sizes of capital letters but no lower-case keys.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/peter-jones">Continue reading...</a>MediaMagazinesBiographyPop and rockThe BeatlesThe Rolling StonesMusicLondonUK newsNewspapersSun, 02 Aug 2015 16:07:53 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/02/peter-jonesPhotograph: Public DomainPeter Jones interviewing Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Jones wrote for the Beatles Monthly Book under the pen-name Billy ShepherdPhotograph: Public DomainPeter Jones interviewing Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Jones wrote for the Beatles Monthly Book under the pen-name Billy ShepherdDave Laing2015-08-02T16:07:53ZDornik: ‘Jessie Ware's interest really forced my hand’http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/02/dornik-feature-into-swedish-death-metal-band-meshuggah
<p>The drummer-turned-psychedelic soul star is being hailed as south London’s answer to Frank Ocean</p><p><strong>Although he’s been pegged as “the British Miguel”, 24-year-old Dornik is more like “the Shuggie Otis of Croydon”. </strong><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/jessie-ware"><strong>Jessie Ware</strong></a><strong>’s former drummer is set to release his self-titled debut album next month. Its mix of psychedelic soul and fuzzy, impressionistic pop is rousing enough for him to be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of </strong><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/23/raury-this-generation-not-hopeless-devils-whisper"><strong>Raury</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/frank-ocean"><strong>Frank Ocean</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Listening to your album, it sounds like you’ve been influenced by 80s pop…<br /></strong>I love Prince, he’s the king. I love <em>1999</em>, <em>Purple Rain</em> and <em>Around the World in a Day</em>. Also Michael Jackson. They were two really big influences on me who were not at all scared of being <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7AOYwo8vA">influenced by rock</a>.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/02/dornik-feature-into-swedish-death-metal-band-meshuggah">Continue reading...</a>Urban musicMusicCultureSun, 02 Aug 2015 09:15:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/02/dornik-feature-into-swedish-death-metal-band-meshuggahPhotograph: PRDornik: ‘I prefer the old sound. Analogue is really warm.’Photograph: PRDornik: ‘I prefer the old sound. Analogue is really warm.’Interview by Priya Elan2015-08-02T09:15:09ZSebastiano Vassalli obituaryhttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/sebastiano-vassalli
Author who focused on his native Italy – both its beauty and its shortcomings<p>The Italian writer Sebastiano Vassalli, who has died aged 73, had a conflicted relationship with the world around him, distancing himself from it, yet obsessively chronicling and narrating it. He lived a solitary life, in an old parish house in the middle of rice fields in the Po valley outside Novara, between Milan and Turin. From this isolation, he typed feverishly on an old Olivetti typewriter – eschewing all newer forms of technology – sending off regular columns to Il Corriere della Sera and publishing, on average, a new book every year, among them more than 20<strong> </strong>novels. His new novel, Io, Partenope (I, Partenope), is due out later this year.</p><p>Vassalli was a polemical voice, always ready to point out the dysfunctional nature of Italian society and to attack its sacred cows. His contrary nature kept him at a distance from the literary scene – he refused most literary prizes since he judged their selection processes to be mafia-like – and inspired the direction of much of his work.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/sebastiano-vassalli">Continue reading...</a>BooksCultureItalySun, 02 Aug 2015 15:39:19 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/sebastiano-vassalliPhotograph: Alessandro Albert/Getty ImagesSebastiano Vassalli at his home in Novara, north-west Italy.Photograph: Alessandro Albert/Getty ImagesSebastiano Vassalli at his home in Novara, north-west Italy.Meriel Tulante2015-08-02T15:39:19ZBobbi Kristina Brown remembered at private funeral outside Atlantahttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/01/bobbi-kristina-brown-funeral-atlanta
<ul><li>Service for only child of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown held<br></li><li>Sister of Bobby Brown leaves church as former Whitney manager speaks</li></ul><p>Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of Whitney Houston and the R&amp;B singer Bobby Brown, was remembered in a private funeral service on Saturday. Details were closely guarded by the Brown and Houston families, attorneys and friends.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2015/jul/27/bobbi-kristina-brown-1993-2015-in-pictures">Bobbi Kristina Brown 1993-2015 - in pictures</a> </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/01/bobbi-kristina-brown-funeral-atlanta">Continue reading...</a>GeorgiaWhitney HoustonMusicCultureUS newsSat, 01 Aug 2015 16:50:54 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/01/bobbi-kristina-brown-funeral-atlantaAgencies in Atlanta2015-08-01T16:50:54ZJanice Dickinson on Bill Cosby: ‘They can fling all they want at me. I did not consent.’http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/janice-dickinson-on-bill-cosby
<p>Ex-model and reality TV star Janice Dickinson is one of more than 40 women who have accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault. His lawyer has called her a liar. Here, she talks about a tough childhood, her fightback and the case that is gripping America</p><p>Janice Dickinson is in a silk robe, smoking a cigarette and descending a flight of steps in her garden, which is built into a hillside in Beverly Hills. She is, at one level, in her element, surrounded by photographers and stylists, a happy reminder of her heyday as a supermodel in the late 1970s. At the same time, she can’t be seen to be enjoying herself too much: the 60-year‑old reality TV star is meeting me in her capacity as one of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/20/bill-cosby-and-the-women-claiming-a-history-of-sexual-assaults">the scores of women who have accused Bill Cosby of rape or sexual assault</a> – accusations the actor has either not responded to or denied.</p><p>“She’s more successful than him anyway, now,” says her assistant, Stephen, as they re-enter the house.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/janice-dickinson-on-bill-cosby">Continue reading...</a>Bill CosbyCelebrityModelsUS newsWorld newsFashionLife and styleTelevision & radioCultureTelevisionReality TVFri, 31 Jul 2015 14:23:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/janice-dickinson-on-bill-cosbyPhotograph: Bradley Meinz/GuardianJanice Dickinson: ‘When the other women came forward, I knew I had to.’ Photograph: Bradley Meinz for the Guardian. Hair: Hailey Adickes, <a href="http://haileyadickeshair.com">haileyadickeshair.com</a>. Makeup: Igor Sanaev. Wardrobe: Tess Alexandra CallnerPhotograph: Bradley Meinz/GuardianJanice Dickinson: ‘When the other women came forward, I knew I had to.’ Photograph: Bradley Meinz for the Guardian. Hair: Hailey Adickes, <a href="http://haileyadickeshair.com">haileyadickeshair.com</a>. Makeup: Igor Sanaev. Wardrobe: Tess Alexandra CallnerEmma Brockes2015-07-31T14:23:37ZWorld Aquatics Championships 2015: week one – in pictureshttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2015/aug/02/world-aquatics-championships-2015-week-one-in-pictures
<p>We select the best photos from the opening week of the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2015/aug/02/world-aquatics-championships-2015-week-one-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>SwimmingDivingSportSun, 02 Aug 2015 19:34:46 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2015/aug/02/world-aquatics-championships-2015-week-one-in-picturesPhotograph: Stefan Wermuth/REUTERSDaffydd Bynon and Steven Bloor2015-08-02T19:34:46Z